Ok folks! So this is actually going to be our final module dedicated to art of the western world, and it’s one that, as I hinted when ending the last lecture, covers one more major style of Christian architecture which developed in the Middle Ages, called the Gothic. We’ve already seen the ways that Christian church building expanded dramatically in the time of the Romanesque, especially as a result of the pilgrimage churches in that era. But while those developments generated impressive and imposing forms, later architects and church builders began to wonder if that simple massiveness did enough to denote the connection between the human and the divine that they felt should be established in such settings. With these ideas in mind, they set out to design a new house of Christian worship that might reassert that ultimately ethereal character.
And so let’s get into the last module of the unit, to see just how they did it..
