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 ...

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

Paris is an unforgettable place, but the City of Lights can get crowded -- and expensive. Not too far away, though, is ...

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.

Criterion (i): Amiens Cathedral, mainly built between 1220 to 1288, is a masterpiece of Gothic architecture for the beauty of its interior elevation, its prodigious sculpted decoration and its stained ...

As Cannon explains, architecture, sculpture and music all came together so that, for a moment, the cathedral became Jerusalem itself – this was the aim and essence of sacred Gothic art and ...

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 ...