After splitting up into groups on Friday, my group took a look at the Salisbury Cathedral in England with the Duomo Cathedral in Italy. We used our first impressions of the buildings to help us find comparisons and contrasts between them.
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| Salisbury showing symmetry |
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| Salisbury looming over everything else |
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| Duomo looming over everything else |
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| Duomo showing symmetry |
-Both are massive structures.
-Both are very symmetrical.
-Both have a wide nave and a set of transepts, the Duomo has wider architecture than the Salisbury.
-Both have exquisite surface decoration on the outside of the building.
-Both have arches.
-The Salisbury Cathedral has a stricter looking style of architecture while the Duomo has a bubblier style of architecture.
-Both have large arches, but the Salisbury has pointed ones and the Duomo has rounded ones.
-The Salisbury has a lot of sharp edges, but the Duomo seems to hide it's edges by making shapes similar to circles, like octagons.
-Circular windows can be found in the Duomo unlike the tall skinny ones of the Salisbury.
-Both pieces of architecture are huge compared to other architecture around them.
-Both have large, open, spaces.
-Both have amazing murals painted on the inside.
I believe that both of these structures represent the region they were constructed in. For example, both of them were rebuilt at a time when their cities were growing and changing as well. Moreover, The Salisbury was built quickly and stuck to it's gothic style while the Duomo was built slowly and changed from gothic to roman style over time. Furthermore, the fact that they are in the center of the city, surrounded by everything else symbolizes that the church had a lot of power.
This is a depiction of the Medieval Times. Basically, in the middle of the circle is a church combined with a castle, this shows that both Royalty and the Church had power over everyone. Surrounding the castle/church is food and money, brought to them through tithes and taxes. The little pentagons represent the small, bland, houses of the peasants.
Adrienne, I enjoy you diagram because I can clearly articulate the correlation from your visual to your written prompt. On a side note, I didn't see you mention material differences in the two Cathedrals. Salisbury has mostly monotone gray tones due to the heavy use of stone while the Doumo also uses stone but with a blend of terra cotta that emulates the buildings around it.
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