Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...

Gothic architecture developed along with cities – it was there that a vast majority of new buildings were erected. The Dominicans and Franciscans who settled in the Polish lands built their ...

Criterion (i): Bourges Cathedral is of considerable importance in the development of Gothic architecture and as a symbol of the strength of Christianity in medieval France. However, its principal ...

Explore the origins of Gothic architecture and its influence on pop culture, from churches to horror novels and movies.

Because of the unity of its architecture and decoration, the result of research of the first Gothic era, its immense influence on the art of Middle Age Christianity, Chartres Cathedral appears as an ...

They display a wide array of architectural styles from Early English Gothic, to the majesty of the Renaissance at St Paul's and the sixties modernism of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Cathedral.

The cathedral of the Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary in Pelplin, photo: Przemek Świderski / Reporter The small town of Pelplin in the Kociewie region hides one of the most monumental sites of Gothic ...

Suddenly, she had a twice-in-a-lifetime chance to study the 13 th century cathedral’s design and architecture in fine detail ... teaching various art history courses including her popular Gothic ...