Yeimi
“Arches”
In this peace of work, I am going to be
explaining the differences between Roman and Gothic Arches in art. Starting with the arches of roman theirs are
rounded, and gothic are pointed.
In the construction of Gothic churches
they, have many more windows and much bigger windows and so inside the church
is not dark like Romanesque churches. Their style of building it is much more
of a bigger church, with new style of roofs and with more supporting walls,
especially the groin vault pointed and the flying buttress. Many of you may ask what is a Vault is a roof
build of stone; the shape is like a V, like were your legs come together. They also,
used the Butter, which is basically a big pile of stone that keeps a building‘s
walls from falling down, it worked for support of the structures. While with this type of support churches like
gothic ones could create bigger windows. As of Roman arch church, there was made
with less support structure, because the churches were not that tall and
because it was not very much support the windows were not made big. Once these
churches were constructed at the end people that lived near or by the area of
gothic churches had to pay a lot of taxes that were collected month after month,
by the Pope. Know in places that roman arch churches were constructed, people
that lived near or by that area did not had to pay so much taxes, as the gothic
people, because during the Middle Ages, the most popular churches were the
gothic ones.
Some people may ask themselves why
artists invented gothic arches when they already had Roman arches. The answer
to that question is really simple, the roman arch style is a rounded style and
the type of vault roof, that they constructed was not that helpful in the sense
that the roof was made out of wood, and when a fire occur the roof would burn
down not giving enough support to the structure, the church would collapse, in
a matter of minutes or even seconds.
