Tracery Window Gallery

With soaring vaults and resplendent stained glass windows, Gothic architecture attempted to recreate a heavenly environment on earth. Elaborating on Romanesque styles, Gothic builders, beginning in the 12th century, further developed the use of flying buttresses and decorative tracery between stained glass windows thus creating interior spaces that dwarfed worshippers and dazzled their senses.

The innovations of Gothic architecture were premised on the ideas developed by Abbot Suger that earthly light contained divine light and that the physical edifice of the church needed to make this concept tangible. Revolutionary transformations of flying buttresses and groin vaulting allowed the inclusion of more stained glass windows in the church’s structure, thus transforming the everyday sunlight into a prism of colors that danced over the surfaces of the stone and reminded worshippers of God’s divine presence.

Most of the windows in this gallery are based on the gothic tracery designs of R.W. Billings (1815-1874).

Posts tagged Tracery Mandala

Odell

Odell

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow box, SOLDMichael HarrisNovember 4, 2024RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Hartley

Hartley

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisNovember 4, 2024RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Lavern

Lavern

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow box, SOLDMichael HarrisNovember 4, 2024RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Rosamund

Rosamund

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow box, SOLDMichael HarrisNovember 4, 2024RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Kenelm

Kenelm

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow box, SOLDMichael HarrisNovember 1, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Montague

Montague

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisNovember 1, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Piaras

Piaras

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisSeptember 20, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Weston

Weston

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisSeptember 20, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Gilleasbuig

Gilleasbuig

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisSeptember 20, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Kelan

Kelan

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisSeptember 20, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Kieron

Kieron

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow box, SOLDMichael HarrisSeptember 19, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Talbot #1

Talbot #1

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow box, SOLDMichael HarrisAugust 21, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, MTO

Lavinia

Lavinia

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow box, SOLDMichael HarrisAugust 21, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery

Claude

Claude

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisAugust 21, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery

Lorelle

Lorelle

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisAugust 21, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery

Thurstan

Thurstan

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisJune 12, 2023RW Billings, Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery

Griffith

Griffith

Tracery Mandala Paper Sculpture

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisDecember 21, 2022Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, RW Billings

Gwladus

Gwladus

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisDecember 21, 2022Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, RW Billings

Jerome

Jerome

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisDecember 21, 2022Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, RW Billings

Camillus

Camillus

Tracery Window

9X9 shadow boxMichael HarrisDecember 21, 2022Tracery Mandala, Gothic Tracery, RW Billings