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<blockquote data-quote="Blue439" data-source="post: 822340" data-attributes="member: 53455">Today’s photo shows the nave of the abbey church of Pontigny, the largest Cistercian abbey church that ever was. Built between 1137 and 1150, it is an enormous church that stands today almost alone in the middle of the countryside, as most of the abbey’s outbuildings have been destroyed during the French Revolution of 1789 (I will show another photo of it tomorrow). Stylistically, it heralds the transition between Romanesque and Gothic. Beware, however: even though the “pointy arches” are a telltale sign of the so-called Gothic style, pointy arches were indeed invented by Romanesque architects a long time before the advent of Gothic. Those arches were perfected in the Cluny III church built between 1088 and 1130. That Benedictine abbey church remained, for five centuries, the largest church in the whole of Christendom, until the completion of the Saint Peter in Vatican basilica in Rome, in 1626.This photo was taken with a Nikon Z7 II and a 19mm ƒ/4 tilt-shift Nikkor lens on a Gitzo tripod with a Benro geared head. Natural light.[ATTACH=full]408320[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Blue439, post: 822340, member: 53455"] Today’s photo shows the nave of the abbey church of Pontigny, the largest Cistercian abbey church that ever was. Built between 1137 and 1150, it is an enormous church that stands today almost alone in the middle of the countryside, as most of the abbey’s outbuildings have been destroyed during the French Revolution of 1789 (I will show another photo of it tomorrow). Stylistically, it heralds the transition between Romanesque and Gothic. Beware, however: even though the “pointy arches” are a telltale sign of the so-called Gothic style, pointy arches were indeed invented by Romanesque architects a long time before the advent of Gothic. Those arches were perfected in the Cluny III church built between 1088 and 1130. That Benedictine abbey church remained, for five centuries, the largest church in the whole of Christendom, until the completion of the Saint Peter in Vatican basilica in Rome, in 1626. This photo was taken with a Nikon Z7 II and a 19mm ƒ/4 tilt-shift Nikkor lens on a Gitzo tripod with a Benro geared head. Natural light. [ATTACH type="full" alt="pontigny8_colorefx.jpg"]408320[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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