ROBERT AND WILLIAM
VERTUE
Shekar Brahma, Gina
Suszko, Alexis Allen, Parth
Bhatt
ARTWORK INFO
1503-1519
This is a picture of the fan vaults of the chapel of Henry VII, Westminster
Abbey, London, England.
Fan vaults are vaults with radiating ribs forming a fanlike pattern.
The chapel of Henry VII symbolizes the decorative and structural qualities of
the Perpendicular style.
The lacelike tracery and hanging pendants resemble stalactites.
The chapel represents the dissolution of structural Gothic into decorative
fancy.
ARTIST INFO
The architects changed the functional Gothic lines by
multiplying them into uninhabited architectural virtuosity
and theatrics of the Perpendicular style.
OPINIONS
The shape seems to resemble moving gears.
Each space of the ceiling is used quite well.
It looks like snowflakes.
It’s coo.