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Gothic architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Its characteristic features include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the .
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Flying Buttresses - Sainte-Chapelle in Riom France
In order to prevent the outward collapse of the arches, Gothic architects began using a revolutionary flying buttress system. Freestanding brick or stone supports .
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Flying Buttress
The Flying Buttress was an innovative feature of Medieval Gothic architecture following the prior introduction of the buttress in earlier Medieval Romanesque .
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Gothic Architecture
Gothic Architecture. Gothic architecture has three distinct characteristics which set it apart from Romanesque; pointed arches, ribbed vault, and flying buttresses.
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Gothic Art And Architecture
The long sides of the cathedral's exterior presented a baffling and tangled array of piers and flying buttresses. The basic form of Gothic architecture eventually .
http://history-world.org/gothic_art_and_architecture.htm

How are flying buttresses constructed?
Oct 20, 1999 . For those of you who aren't up to scratch on Gothic architecture, a flying buttress is a projecting masonry structure built on the outside of a .
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Gothic buildings: a spotters' guide | Art and design | The Guardian
Sep 10, 2011 . Flying buttress. Gothic architectural aspiration was unequivocally bound for the heavens. From about 1150, in order to support the weight of the .
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2011/sep/10/gothic-buildings-spotters-guide

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The Seven Key Characteristics of Gothic Architecture: From the ...
Discover the seven characteristics of gothic architecture. Includes the history of the gargoyles of gothic architecture, the flying buttress and the all-important .
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Gothic or Romanesque?
Gothic Architecture Three architectural features are typical of the Gothic. These are the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, and the flying buttress. It is the pointed arch .
http://staff.harrisonburg.k12.va.us/~cwalton/gothicorromanesque.htm

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Cathedral Architecture
To make these massive buildings, the builders obviously needed a lot of building material. Most of the . The Gothic vaults were very difficult to build. . The purpose of the flying buttress was to help support them from the outside. If there were .
http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/cathedrals.htm

flying buttress (architecture) -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia
flying buttress (architecture), Masonry structure typically consisting of an . The flying buttress evolved in the Gothic era from earlier simpler, hidden supports.
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