FILE: 001_Gothic Period.jpg

TITLE: Gothic Period

DESCRIPTION: Gothic Architecture "invented" by Abbotts Suger of St. Denis and Bernard of Clairvaux who said that people were affected emotionally/spiritually by architecture. How to make people more devout, make their eyes go UP, make environment light and airy like heaven?? Gothic Architecture = pointy arches; taller, thinner walls; big windows; colored glass.