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Definition of Gothic architecture

1. Noun. A style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gothic Architecture

Literary usage of Gothic architecture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... Gothic architecture is largely written in its cathedrals, the great churches are very far from completing the record of English medieval building. ..."

2. Architecture, Gothic and Renaissance by Thomas Roger Smith (1908)
"Gothic architecture IN CENTRAL AND NORTHERN EUROPE. GERMANY. CHRONOLOGICAL SKETCH. THE architecture of Germany, from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, ..."

3. A Text Book of the History of Architecture by Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin (1909)
"Moore, Development and Character of Gothic architecture. Parker, Introduction to Gothic architecture; Glossary of Terms used in Gothic architecture. ..."

4. Apollo: An Illustrated Manual of the History of Art Throughout the Ages by Salomon Reinach (1907)
"GOTHIC architecture, essentially a northern, Franco-Germanic manifestation, struck no very deep roots in Italy. It seems strange at first sight that ..."

5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"As one of the most recent commentators on Gothic architecture has said, "A definition so restricted carries with it its own condemnation" (Francis Bond, ..."

6. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"Gothic architecture was originally ecclesiastical almost altogether. Few buildings except churches required the vaulted roof upon light supports. ..."

7. Southern Literary Messenger (1861)
"Gothic architecture AND NATURAL RELIGION. As the ocean obedient to the ... From whence, then, came Gothic architecture ? This question has produced an ..."

8. Outlines of the History of Art by Wilhelm Lübke (1904)
"Moore, CH, "Development and Character of Gothic architecture. ... Street, GE, "Some Account of Gothic architecture in Spain; Brick and Marble in the Middle ..."

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