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, ...

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 ...

She would spend 37 years at Duke teaching various art history courses including her popular Gothic Cathedrals class, in which students would design their own cathedral using Notre Dame and others as ...

“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 ...

What is revealed with the restoration of Gothic architecture is a newfound appreciation for the many colours that these buildings were painted with. Many parts of Gothic cathedrals — especially ...

Most of us, when hearing the word 'gothic', conjure up the image of soaring cathedral towers. In the territories of ... consequence of the rational and logical principles of the new art. The new style ...

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 ...