GothicArchitect

December 2010

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Restoring previous edit

GothicArchitect, you asked on the page of Gothic architecture about why your link keeps getting deleted, and asked what the errors on the page were.

You had already received and deleted that information. Stop playing games! here is the information again. It is covered still more fully on the Gothic architecture talk page. Amandajm (talk) 06:29, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Links- Gothic architecture

• Re the link that I keep removing- It contains so many errors, as I have noted almost every time in the "Edit Summary" that it doesn't belong as a link to that article.

• Re the link that I have put back- I had previously checked out that site and thought it seemd to warrant linking. I have noticed that it didn't come up when I clicked on it, by my internet connection is so slow that everything, including Wikipedia, drops out frequently, particularly on the weekends. Now I know that it is defunct, I won't put it back again.

Please don't add the Gothic architecture site. Some of the problems include several pictures that are neither Gothic or Gothic Revival. The biggest problem that I noticed was the section about the origins of Gothic architecture which quotes the scholarship of a Baroque architect of the 1600s, elaborates on that theme and goes no further. There is quite a deal about Christopher Wren, as if he was a Gothic architect. Wren was really not much clearer about the origins than were those who called the architecture "Gothic". It had nothing to do with the Goths at all, and not a great deal to do with the "Moors".

The use of the pointed arch was borrowed by Islamic architects from the Persians. In the West there are a couple of examples of the pointed arch being employed in Romanesque buildings in a "Moorish" manner, eg Autun Cathedral, where it appears as a decorative alternative to the regular round-headed arch employed in the vast majority of Romanesque buildings. But in general the pointed arch was used initially in an entirely different way- as a transverse ribs between a pair of diagonal ribs, in order to maintain the height (as at Durham Cathedral). This is a structural engineering solution rather than a decorative one. It represents the earliest use of high pointed vaults and is totally different from any Islamic use of the pointed arch, ie. it was neither borrowed nor adapted, but had to do with the size of the radius of the arcs drafted by the architect. Amandajm (talk) 12:47, 13 December 2010 (UTC)