Gothic style appeared in France in the XII century.It arose on the basis of the Romanesque style, which used the principle of clarity and transparency, the pursuit of constructive openness.Buildings and houses in the Gothic tracery are here, the principle of uniformity of forms, and to achieve diversity, use multiple repetition of elements of different proportions, but similar in type.Such items create a sense of openwork lace.
Gothic style in the interior
For the interior in the Gothic style is characterized by large windows, all kinds of light effects, multicolored stained glass and accented verticality of all elements of design.The inherent features of this style can be considered a desire upward, irrationalism, the ease and expressiveness of the mystique.Specific stylistic orientation of the interior gives the Gothic ornament and the use of stained glass in the traditional gothic range of colors and shades.This stained glass may be used not only in the windows, but a blank wall.As a complementary element of the interior in the Gothic style will look great tile stove or fireplace is luxuriously decorated.Ornament in the Gothic style - it's basically all the elements of flora, usually in the form of maple leaves and grapes and the geometric shape of the arch.
color scheme, which is maintained ornamental
Gothic style can be described as dark and cold, even bleak.He is characterized by ruby, purple, red, yellow, green, blue and black colors blue and clove pink tones and silver, gold thread.These shades give the interior a Gothic mystery and gloom.If we talk about the materials typical of Gothic architecture, it is a different kind of colored wood - walnut, oak, spruce, European pine, larch, juniper.In addition, this style inherent in wood carving, ceramics, stone, bone, metal and glass, which is decorated with Gothic ornament and enamel painting.
Furniture Gothic
Gothic in essence is simple, not only in colors but also in furniture.As a rule, in the interior there are all kinds of shelves, screens, large bookcases with carved repeating Gothic ornament on the windows in the form of arcades, high bivalve cabinets, chests and cupboards iron rivets on high legs.
Features Ornament in the Gothic style
Ever since its inception Gothic ornament different symbolism and diversity.And now, there continues to be used and the transformation of the ancient Byzantine motifs, but at the same time there are also new, more modern themes.Weave curvilinear geometries alternate rectilinear.Also common ornamental geometric constructions and create a form of spherical triangles and quadrangles and pointed arches, commonly used herbal form of local nature, ornamentation characterize the specifics of the era - rose leaves, clover, ivy, oak, grapes and so on.A special place in the architecture of the Gothic covers embossed Gothic ornament, made in stone.
sculptural ornamentation
Gothic architecture as the art developed along with the sculpture.The sculptural ornamentation of stylized palmettes and acanthus motifs are used less frequently, giving way to other forms of the vegetable world.Floral motifs of early Gothic period, from the buds of shoots in the ornament XIII century.turn into a full-blown leaves and lush bouquets of flowers and fruit in the XIV century.
Ornamental motifs Gothic
elements of Gothic architecture is traditionally decorated with images of human heads, centaurs, individual episodes from the Bible in the form of figures, historical figures, rose leaves and grapes.For example, the architecture of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, which represented grotesque gargoyles winged monsters.Gothic ornament pieces of furniture are often used in the form of thin plexus, rib-like arches combined with leafy pattern.At the end of the XV century.It was distributed ornament "linen folds."In addition, the furniture is also playing a sculptural stone frieze of wood in the form of tightly woven, twisted leaves and twigs.
Ornamental tiles Gothic
In the era of Gothic floors paved with tiles made of ceramic, decorated with ornaments.Basically, this tile was square, but sometimes rectangular, hexagonal shape.Combining the lines of the pattern of individual tiles created a common pattern surface.Tile largely on the type of masonry lining parquet - strips, but sometimes used and the more complex configuration, for example in the church.Tiles decorated with various motifs - floral, geometric, anthropomorphic, zoomorphic and so on.The most common ornamental plant is considered to be a combination of shoots and palmettos.Traditional forms of Gothic ornament true lily on a tall stalk that can be represented as a single flower or a four buds linked together.
