The most memorable cathedrals are in one form or other of Gothic – a radical art and engineering movement that appeared and evolved with incredible speed during the 12th century. What on earth ...

Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, in pure ogival style, ...

“Gothic was an innovative, progressive architecture,” says Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University ... Early Gothic churches like Sens Cathedral and Senlis Cathedral, spurred ...

The Cathedral of St Etienne of Bourges, built between the late 12th and late 13th centuries, is one of the great masterpieces of Gothic art and is admired for its proportions and the unity of its ...

The content discusses the Gothic art movement from 1140 to 1500 AD in Europe, emphasizing its philosophical underpinnings that combined faith and reason. Gothic architecture, exemplified by cathedrals ...

A century and a half before the Florentine flowering of Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, another Tuscan city wondrous for ...

Saint-Denis, as well as other Early Gothic churches like Sens Cathedral and Senlis Cathedral ... “Hood later designed the Rockefeller Center, which is Art Deco. They peel off the historicizing ...