#Medieval Architecture

[lady-alabaster]

Beautiful perspective from S. Galgano Abbey, Chiusdino (Siena), Italy, 1218-1288

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Bishop's Palace & Gardens

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💚⚜️💚The Beauty of Kcd2💚⚜️💚

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Basilique Notre-Dame, Avioth, Lorraine, France

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The largest Gothic brick church in the world.

The great medieval city called the Lion of the Hanseatic League needed a representative temple tailored to its needs.

The monumental temple was built for nearly 150 years (1346–1502). The church is one of the so-called brick Gothic, Gothic architecture common in the countries of the Baltic Sea basin.

The dimensions of the Gothic colossus are; 105.5 meters long, 66 meters wide in the transept, the vault reaches a height of 30 m. The tower rises to a height of 82 meters. Medieval architects predicted the temple's capacity for over 20,000 people.

[wandering-italy]

Santa Maria della Scala, once a civic hospital dedicated to caring for abandoned children, the poor, the sick and pilgrims.

Siena, Tuscany

Dec. 2019

[mioritic]

Stonemason's mark at St. Michael's Church (Szent Mihály-templom/Biserica Sf. Mihail) in Kolozsvár/Cluj-Napoca, Transylvania, built between 1316–1487.

This mark is located at the entrance of the side chapel at the left (north) transept.

According to a study published by Edit Grandpierre in 1936, there exist at least 49 other mason's marks in the church, although this paticular mark was not documented in the study (see: Grandpierre Edit, "A kolozsvári Szent Mihály-templom története és építészete 1349-től napjainkig", Erdélyi Múzeum 7, vol. 41, issues 1-3: 19-60).

Photographed on 24 December 2024

[blackofhair]

For the vast majority of medieval women, then, home was a relatively simple structure, but its size and layout varied a good deal from place to place.

Simple one- or two-room houses were found everywhere. Many were rectangular or oval structures, single storied with a door located on the long side of the building (or on both sides, forming a passage through the house), accommodating the family within one main room with a hearth in its center and a single smaller bedchamber at one end.

An expanded variant of this model added a third room or space for livestock or storage at the opposite end. By the fourteenth century, a second story was sometimes built above the chamber, creating a room called a “solar” in English sources, but in many places the standard structure remained single storied.

Variants on these basic house types were the “farm,�� where the relative wealth of the owners allowed for the separation of the homestead into a dwelling house and functional buildings such as byre and barn, and the Mediterranean multiroomed, multilevel house where yard or garden space was often minimal.

from A cultural history of women in the middle ages by Kim M. Phillips

[mothmiso]

Sighisoara (2) (3) (4) (5) by SBA73

Via Flickr:

(1) Turnul Croitorilor, the "Tailor's Tower" of Sighisoara. Each tower was built by one guild of the city. (3) (4) El rellotge de la torre / The clock in the tower.     

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Harrold, Bedfordshire, England, UK

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Wall paintings in Amer Fort in Rajasthan, India.

This is the main entranceway to the private areas of the fort, and it is entirely covered in beautiful wall paintings. It is called the Ganesh Pol due to an image of Ganesh painted directly above the doorway on the outside. Built during the reign of Mirza Raja Jai Singh (1621-67 AD), Amer fort was home to one of the most influential of the Rajput royal families during the time of the Great Mughals. The Mughal emperor Akbar's marriage to the Rajput princess Mariam-uz-Zamani, popularly known as Jodha Bai, places this court close to the heart of the history of the early Mughals, whose palace spaces were continually adapted by successive rulers.

Via Jordan Quill

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Medieval humor. - Abbey of Sainte Foy, Conques, France, c.1050

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⚜️🔺⚜️Medieval Life⚜️🔺⚜️

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13th century house in Aveyron, France.

[along-the-silkroad]

Sumela Monastery is located in the Maçka district of Trabzon Province, in modern-day Turkey. It is a former Greek Orthodox monastery whose foundation dates back to the 4th century CE. The monastery was restored several times by various Byzantine emperors, and its present structure primarily dates to the 13th century. It is dramatically nestled into a steep cliff face at an elevation of approximately 1,200 meters, overlooking the lush Altındere Valley.