NOUN
- a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches
How To Use Gothic architecture In A Sentence
- Moreover, the attenuation of form and decoration over time, evident in the thinner splat, is for some art historians a general principle grounded in studies of Gothic architecture and neoclassicism.
- Window design is also a characteristic feature of Gothic architecture.
- Felibien, the French author of the _Lives of Architects_, divides Gothic architecture into two distinct kinds -- the _massive_ and the _light_; and as the latter superseded the former, the term Gothic, which had been originally applied to both kinds, seems to have been restricted improperly to the latter only. Notes and Queries, Number 09, December 29, 1849
- This virtuoso decorative carving is a typical feature of late Gothic architecture in Bohemia.
- In some respects this enthusiasm for the Middle Ages and for Gothic architecture in particular was a matter of fashion: thus Parisian letters of 1834 record as superlatives current in the salons — alongside such curiosities as pyramidale, babylonien, and apocalyptique — the epithets gothique, ogival, and flamboyant. CONCEPT OF GOTHIC
- The new clergy houses were of a quite different, selfless and holy Gothic architecture.
- Secular remains of Gothic architecture in Czechoslovakia are fewer.
- Durham Cathedral is one of the most majestic cathedrals in Britain and a unique combination of Romanesque and Gothic architecture.
- City Hall is a fine example of Gothic architecture.
- Elisabethkirche, one of the two or three first purely Gothic churches north of the Alps outside of France and thus an incunable of Gothic architecture in Germany, as well as for the castle. WN.com - Articles related to Expulsion of Roma Raises Questions in France
