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 ...

Built in the 12th and 13th centuries, this was Scandinavia's first Gothic cathedral to be built of brick and it encouraged the spread of this style throughout northern Europe. It has been the ...

Begun in 1248, the construction of this Gothic masterpiece took place in several stages and was not completed until 1880. Over seven centuries, successive builders were inspired by the same faith and ...

How did Gothic art influence the modernists? An exhibition in Norway explores how artists like Dürer and Hans Holbein's ...

Participants in UBCO's new course "Western Europe Transformed: Art in the Gothic Era" will learn about the dramatic ...

The Gothic cathedral, St Michael's of Coventry ... boasts some of the finest medieval wood carving in Britain, if not Europe. In the 13th century England's greatest carpenter, William Lyngewode ...

And in one sense, it was: how else can one describe the gutting of a building that stood witness to so much of Western European ... The cathedral in all its Gothic glory that exists today was ...

Gothic architecture ... and they were built when the vast majority of the European population was living in 'hovels.' The most memorable cathedrals are in one form or other of Gothic – a ...

Towering above the center of the Barri Gòtic district is Barcelona's principal cathedral. The Gothic cathedral's construction began in the late 13th century, though it wasn't completed until the ...