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Gothic Architecture

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Early Gothic Architecture

Gothic Structure

Ideal Gothic Church Viollet-le-Duc

Flying buttress Villard d'Honnecourt

Early Gothic

Laon Cathedral, 1160-1225	Laon Cathedral, 1160-1225	Laon Cathedral, 1160-1225
Laon Cathedral, 1160-1225	Laon Cathedral, 1160-1225
Notre Dame, Paris c. 1163-1250.	Notre Dame, Paris c. 1163-1250.
Notre Dame, Paris, c. 1163-1250.	Notre Dame, Paris c. 1163-1250.	Notre Dame, Paris c. 1163-1250.

• Laon Cathedral, Laon, France. 1160-1225.
• Notre Dame, Paris, France. c. 1163-1250.

High Gothic Architecture

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• Notre Dame, Chartres, France. c. 1194-1250.
• Notre Dame, Amiens, France. begun 1220.
• Cathedral, Bourges.
• Ste. Chapelle, Paris, France. 1243-48.
• Cologne Cathedral, Cologne, Germany. 1284 onwards; completed 1824-1880.

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