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	Gothic Art - Artists, Artworks and Biographies
		The Gothic Style was dominated by dark oil paintings that represented a shift from the Dark ages into a more prosperous and civilized society.
		Gothic art and architecture consisted primarily of religious works and was characterized by arches, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts.
		During this period, Italian and Northern European styles had integrated, resulting in a style that was a combination of both of their ideas, thoughts, and techniques.
	www.wwar.com /masters/movements/gothic.html (296 words)

	Gothic Art And Architecture
		The term Gothic was coined by classicizing Italian writers of the Renaissance, who attributed the invention (and what to them was the non-classical ugliness) of medieval architecture to the barbarian Gothic tribes that had destroyed the Roman Empire and its classical culture in the 5th century Ad.
		At the technical level Gothic architecture is characterized by the ribbed vault (a vault in which stone ribs carry the vaulted surface), the pointed arch, and the flying buttress (normally a half arch carrying the thrust of a roof or vault across an aisle to an outer pier or buttress).
		The elegant and somewhat artificial prettiness of this style was widely disseminated throughout Europe in sculpture, painting, and manuscript illumination during the 14th century and became known as the International Gothic style.
	history-world.org /gothic_art_and_architecture.htm (5979 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Gothic style
		Gothic architecture is the name given to a style of architecture particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches constructed throughout Europe during the late medieval period, from the 12th to 15th century.
		The style is exemplified by an emphasis of verticality and features almost skeletal structures, sharply pointed spires, flying buttresses, ribbed vaults, pointed arches and gargoyles.
		The Gothic style was imitated in Europe and the United States in new construction centuries after the Middle Ages.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/go/Gothic_style (248 words)

	REALTOR.com: Fanciful, Mythical Style
		Thus, the Gothic Style, which fed America's fascination with the romance of the medieval past, was born.
		Gothic Revival, the first of the Picturesque styles, was a style that borrowed decorative elements from churches and town halls that were built in Europe between 1100 and 1500.
		Gothic builders were less concerned with formal stylistic dogma than they were with the celebration of craft and utility.
	www.realtor.com /Basics/AllAbout/TypesStyles/Articles/Gothic.asp (389 words)

	BBC - Homes - Design - Gothic
		Gothic was an architectural style predominant throughout the Middle Ages, from the fall of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance in the early 15th century.
		In the late 18th century aspects of the style were used for interiors and known as 'Gothick', along with rococo and chinoiserie, but in a romantic, frivolous way with no real historical basis.
		The Victorians revived the style again in the mid-19th century but this time it was a reaction against classical style and its symmetry.
	www.bbc.co.uk /homes/design/period_gothic.shtml (627 words)

	Gothic Art and Architecture
		Gothic Art and Architecture, is a style in European art and architecture that flourished from about 1140 to the end of the 16th century in many areas.
		Roskilde Cathedral was built in the 12th and 13th centuries, and was Scandinavia's first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick, encouraging the spread of this style throughout northern Europe.
		Hrastovlje: Gothic Monument of Slovenia (Frescoes of Hrastovlje)
	arthistory.heindorffhus.dk /frame-Style08-Gothic.htm (2040 words)

	History of Art: Gothic Art-Master Theodoric,Torriti Jacopo,Master of the Glatz Madonna (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Gothic era opens a new chapter in the history of art, one which marks the transition from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance and the beginning of secular painting.
		The power it continued to house was reflected in the Gothic Revival which arose in England after the decline of the Baroque, and which spread to Germany and ultimately to the USA and even Australia.
		Even as High Gothic architecture in the region around Paris entered its classical phase with the construction of Chartres at the start of the 13th century, in neighbouring countries, on the Rhine and in Spain, buildings were still springing up in the excessively ornamented style of the Late Romanesque.
	www.all-art.org /gothic_era/01.html (1819 words)

	Gothic Art - Artists, Artworks and Biographies
		The Gothic Style was dominated by dark oil paintings that represented a shift from the Dark ages into a more prosperous and civilized society.
		Gothic art and architecture consisted primarily of religious works and was characterized by arches, stained glass, and illuminated manuscripts.
		During this period, Italian and Northern European styles had integrated, resulting in a style that was a combination of both of their ideas, thoughts, and techniques.
	wwar.com /masters/movements/gothic.html (296 words)

	Bricks & Brass: Gothic Style (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The neo-Gothic architectural and decorative style was in its heyday between 1855 and 1875.
		The style took as its inspiration the architecture of castles and churches, with their pointed gables, arched roof and ceilings, and stained glass.
		The perpendicular style was common early in the revival.
	www.bricksandbrass.co.uk /deshist/gothic/gothic.htm (325 words)

	gothic - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		Of or relating to an architectural style prevalent in western Europe from the 12th through the 15th century and characterized by pointed arches, rib vaulting, and a developing emphasis on verticality and the impression of height.
		The word Gothic, first recorded in 1611 in a reference to the language of the Goths, was extended in sense in several ways, meaning "Germanic," "medieval, not classical," "barbarous," and also an architectural style that was not Greek or Roman.
		Gothic was used by scholars to mean "Germanic, Teutonic" (1647), hence its evolution as a term for the art style that emerged in northern Europe in the Middle Ages, and the early 19c.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/gothic (965 words)

	Gothic Style (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gothic architecture first got its name during the Italian renaissance when the people considered all buildings of the middle ages barbaric and associated them with the savage Goths.
		Many of the individual characteristics of gothic architecture, such as ribbed vaults and pointed arches, were also used in the Romanesque style.
		Gothic cathedrals had hundreds of windows, but the interior was usually dim.
	library.thinkquest.org /16545/data/low/gothic.htm (461 words)

	Robert Branner: Gothic Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But it was in the service of the Church that the Gothic style attained its most meaningful expression, for the Church was the most prolific builder of the Middle Ages, providing the widest scope for the development of architectural ideas and calling forth the best talents.
		The Gothic interpretation of this point of view was a monument that seems to dwarf the man who enters it, for space, light, structure and the plastic effects of the masonry are organized to produce a visionary scale.
		Gothic was not dark, massive, and contained, like the older Romanesque style, but light, open and aerial, and its appearance in all parts of Europe had an enduring effect on the outlook of succeeding generations.
	www.columbia.edu /~eer1/branner.html (4107 words)

	Gothic Art \| Thematic Essay \| Timeline of Art History \| The Metropolitan Museum of Art
		Long since rid of derogatory connotations, the label is now used to characterize an art form based on the pointed arch, which emerged around Paris in the middle of the twelfth century, was practiced throughout Europe, and lingered in some regions well into the sixteenth century.
		Gothic architecture is the result of an engineering challenge: how to span in stone ever-wider surfaces from ever-greater heights?
		Gothic vocabulary gradually permeated all forms of art throughout Europe.
	www.metmuseum.org /toah/hd/mgot/hd_mgot.htm (1151 words)

	GOTHIC-STYLE FURNISHINGS (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Part of the appeal of Gothic is the image it evokes of spooky, romantic castles and a sense of mystery.
		Gothic came into fashion for the second time in England from the late 18th to the last quarter of the 19th century.
		However, a Gothic revival desk and bookcase made by Jand W Meeks, New York, made of walnut is in a private collection.
	www.antiquelynx.com /Articles/gothicfurnitureAG.htm (543 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Gothic Architecture
		Gothic architecture is an impulse and a tendency rather than a perfectly rounded accomplishment; the element of personality entered into it as into no other of the great styles, and it was therefore subject not only to dazzling flights of spontaneous genius, but also to the misguided imaginings of daring innovators.
		Perhaps the nearest approach to true Gothic feeling and accomplishment is to be found in the unfinished front of Genoa cathedral; being of the twelfth century, it is sufficiently early to have received something of the first great Gothic impulse, and is a masterpiece of delicate relations and exquisite detail.
		Gothic architecture and of all Catholic art came with varying degrees of rapidity and at different times as between the several schools of Europe.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/06665b.htm (13144 words)

	International Gothic Style - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: )
		International Gothic Style, in the visual arts, a similarity of style in painting, manuscript illumination, sculpture, decorative arts, and...
		International Style, in architecture, the principal architectural trend of the 1920s and 1930s, which began in Europe with the teachings of the...
		First published by the University of Chicago Press in 1906, The Chicago Manual of Style is a standard reference for professional editors and...
	encarta.msn.com /International_Gothic_Style.html (252 words)

	Gothic Revival Architecture in England
		The term "Gothic Revival" (sometimes called Victorian Gothic) usually refers to the period of mock-Gothic architecture practised in the second half of the 19th century.
		Into the early years of the 19th century many architects dabbled in Gothic style, but as with Walpole, it was more the decorative touches that appealed to them; little bits of carving here, a dab of pointed arch there.
		High Victorian Gothic was applied to a dizzying variety of architectural projects, from hotels to railroad stations, schools to civic centres.
	www.britainexpress.com /architecture/gothic-revival.htm (1084 words)

	Gothic revival. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Although the Gothic revival was practiced throughout Europe, it attained its greatest importance in the United States and England.
		The first works of note in the Gothic style appeared in the 1830s in buildings designed by A. Davis and Richard Upjohn.
		The Gothic movement foundered because of the impossibility of reproducing medieval buildings when there was no longer a medieval economy or technology.
	www.bartleby.com /65/go/Gothicre.html (499 words)

	Gothic Subculture and Style
		Although the Gothic is a difficult subculture to define, a sharper picture of it emerges through its relationships to Punk and Glam, through the psychological studies of alienated youth, and through the act of self-representation, especially on the internet.
		The Gothic philosophy is represented in the icons it appropriates from everyday life, from poetry and music and fashion to weddings, gardening, and cooking.
		Gothic, being a subculture built off of the styles of other subcultures and being a subcultre where sociopolitical action is in the background of personal representation, is highly rooted in style.
	www.ithaca.edu /keg/seminar/gothstyle.html (1992 words)

	Unit V: Gothic Period
		The means of attaining these goals included the hallmarks of the Gothic style: ribbed groin vaults, pointed arches, extensive walls of glass, external buttresses, a symbolic use of "magic" numbers (groupings of 12 columns, 7 radiating chapels, etc.), and a new integration of interior spaces.
		The exaggerated S-curve of their bodies (labeled the "Gothic sway" by the experts), full drapery pulled across their hips to emphasize body bulk and movement, and their rather prissy smiles are all characteristic of the "Elegant Style" variant of the High Gothic.
		The Gothic viewer could indeed feel as though he could speak to his favorite Biblical characters, just as when he entered the interiors of the cathedrals, he found himself literally in a mystical, transcendental space.
	infinity.cos.edu /art/strong/module/history2/unit5/gothic (2379 words)

	Antiques : By Period, Style : Gothic :
		A wonderful exercise in Gothic lettering with letters of the alphabet A through R in gold and other colors, all displayed surrounded delicate blue bell flowers.
		This elaborate Victorian Gothic style cabinet was carved of solid walnut during the 1870's, and has original engraved brasses.
		Authentic Gothic Revival Chandelier in gilt bronze.Originally candle burning & now fitted for electricity, it has two tiers of candle lights (a total of 18).The frame of this chandelier is just so highly detailed & the...
	search.rubylane.com /antiques/,id=4.5.28,page=3.html (1135 words)

	Ontario Architecture Styles Page
		From Abbé Suger's original Gothic designs in the 11th century at St. Denis to the most recent Gothic churches in Canada, the vaults, lancet windows, and exaggerated verticality of the Gothic style were intended to point the observer heavenwards and produce a spiritually elevating experience.
		While the 19th century Gothic Revival style was elaborate, dichromatic, and used for every type of building from the small Gothic Cottage to churches and government buildings, Neo-Gothic was monochromatic and on a much more grand scale.
		The door has a pointed lunette creating a Gothic arch which is covered by a drip mold finished by label stops.
	www.ontarioarchitecture.com /Neogothic.htm (967 words)

	Gothic Style Brick Buildings, Mecklenburg, Vorpommern, Germany
		The churches in the Hanseatic City of Greifswald are fine examples of gothic brick construction.
		The Church in Wismar is a late Gothic brick built structure (inaugurated 1459) with an impressive 37m high central nave, the largest after Cologne and Ulm and the third highest in Germany.
		The cruciform Gothic basilica is the most notable church in Rostock.
	www.all-in-all.com /english/8022.htm (667 words)

	REALTOR.com: Living in Gothic Revival Style
		First, the characteristics that show Gothic influences: The steeply pitched roof is the first trait common to the style.
		It’s hard to pinpoint a date for this style home, since the Colonial influences---symmetrical arrangement, porch, and the shed dormer—can be found on homes from the 1700s in the United States.
		Your house is a great example of a grand house built for a prominent family, celebrating their wealth and discerning style at the beginning of the 20th century.
	www.realtor.com /basics/allabout/typesstyles/tedcolumn/livegothrev.asp?poe=realtor (1967 words)

	gothicoverview.html
		The person generally honored as the originator of the Gothic style was Abbot Suger (1081-1151), whose Benedictine abbey church of St.
		The Gothic style quickly spread to the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, and from there to the rest of France.
		By 1600 the dominant architectural style for public buildings, churches, and private estates was neoclassical, except in areas like Oxford and Cambridge, where the Gothic style continued unchecked in reverence for tradition.
	www.faculty.de.gcsu.edu /~rviau/gothicoverview.html (1661 words)

	American architecture, Gothic Revival Style
		Gothic Revival began in England and became the dominant style for country houses and was popular with Queen Victoria.
		It became the only "proper style" for English church building and was promoted as the proper style for all English buildings from 1840-1870.
		Gothic Style fed public fascination with the romance of the medieval past.
	www.realviews.com /homes/gothic.html (458 words)

	Earthlore Gothic Dreams Introduction - An Appreciation of the Gothic Style in Art & Architecture
		In the very birth place of Gothic spirit, a great number of fine churches were ravaged or completely demolished by the great grandchildren of their medieval builders.
		During the Gothic age communication of craft and style was limited by the physical travel of small guilds of craftsmen.
		The Radiant style, originating during the reign of Louis the Fourteenth in France, sometimes referred to as the Court style or 'the style of the French.' The name which carried through the ages refers to the patterning of the windows which allowed for such radiant lighting.
	www.elore.com /Gothic/introduction.htm (1674 words)

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