Word: gothic
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lecture room of the Fogg Museum was crowded last evening by the audience that assembled to hear Professor Moore's third lecture on the Fine Arts of the Middle Ages. Professor Moore began with the organic Lombard Romanesque architecture in northern France, and traced the development of the Gothic style, which culminated in such buildings as the cathedral of Paris...
...Lombard romanesque system was a development of the Byzantine system although the two resembled each other very little. It soon died out in Italy where it originated but survived in France and among the cities of the Rhine in the form of Romanesque and Gothic architecture...
...introduction, Professor Moore said that to understand the art of the Middle Ages we must consider architecture, sculpture, and painting together, because at that period these now separate branches were closely united. The architecture of the Middle Ages was primarily that of church edifices. The Gothic system, the distinctive style of the Middle Ages, was developed from the architecture of the early Christian Church. It was the Roman "basilica" which, in all probability, furnished the first model. Professor Moore then traced the growth of church architecture through the early Roman forms, as shown by the churches of St. Paul...
...position between Welch and Lawrence Halls and overlooking the New Haven Green. The building is designed as a tower flanked by four octagonal turrets, with an elevation from ground to top of parapet of about 100 feet. The exterior will be faced with sandstone from the Longmeadow quarries. Collegiate gothic has been adopted as the design of the new hall. This building will complete the long front on the easterly side of the campus...
...varied with every century in the history of mankind. The different styles of architecture with which we are now familiar have received their impulse and inspiration from the characteristics and peculiarities of the nations which were dominant at the several times of their origin. We have had the Roman, Gothic and Medixval styles and then out of the reformation and regeneration of ideas which came in the sixteenth century grew the Renaissance, which has represented the ideas and inventions of the past hundred years...