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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 ...
Over a period of nearly 400 years, many of Europe's most famous churches were designed and constructed using Gothic architecture, a style originating in 12th century France and first known as ...
His argument covers a field very familiar to students of architecture, but it is distinguished by a clear, logical precision of statement, and by a boldness, and not unfrequently by an originality ...
Our tour of Barcelona’s Barri Gòtic, the old Gothic Quarter, began at the charming Plaçeta del Pí, an intimate square behind the 14th century church Santa Maria del Pí. My family and I were ...
The famous Prado Museum in Madrid has unveiled its impressive ultra-modern wing, designed by star architect Rafael Moneo. It marks the highpoint in a renaissance of architecture in Spain, which ...
A secret skeleton revealed in the centuries-old Gothic cathedral during reconstruction shows that Notre Dame was likely the first to use iron staples to reinforce its architecture.
Newsletter: Essential Arts: What Europe’s Gothic architecture took from Islamic design French President Emmanuel Macron, center, visits Paris’ Notre Dame reconstruction site in April.
There is a secret heaven genre geeks know about, an antique theme park of candlelit castle corridors, webby crypt cellars, velvet-curtained dining halls, old-growth estate hills dripping with fake ...