PLAN OF AMIENS | PLAN OF NOTRE DAME |
The Perfect Plan of French Gothic |
Both Plans Are Basilican and Have Double Aisles and Chevêts. But in Amiens Note the Series of Apses and Their Complicated Vaulting. The Nave Vaulting of Notre Dame Has Six Divisions in Each Double Bay; That of Amiens Is Treated in a Single Bay with Four Divisions by Means of Groin Ribs and Pointed Arches. [P. 281]
NOTRE DAME, PARIS
Early Type
AMIENS CATHEDRAL
Transition to Rayonnant