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How Gothic Cathedrals Got Their Windows
Gothic isn't a spooky style. It's a 12th-century engineering campaign with one obsession: deleting the wall.
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Stained Glass
Stained glass is coloured glass cut into shapes and joined into panels, traditionally using grooved lead strips called cames.
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Romanesque architecture
Romanesque architecture is a medieval European building style defined by thick stone walls, sturdy pillars, and semicircular arches.
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Rib vault
A rib vault is an arched ceiling frame made of crossed stone ribs filled in with thin masonry panels.
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Flying buttress
A flying buttress is an outside stone arch that carries a vault's outward push to a separate pier, so Gothic walls could hold huge stained-glass windows.
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Clerestory
A clerestory is a high wall section containing windows set well above eye level.
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Rose window
A rose window is a large circular window divided into segments by stone tracery, most famously built into Gothic cathedrals.
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Notre Dame Cathedral
Notre Dame Cathedral is a medieval Catholic cathedral and basilica located on the Île de la Cité in Paris, France.