Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest achievements—ambitious monuments where master architects, ...

Among the Gothic monuments preserved to this day, churches are the most numerous – because ... the variations of the Gothic style are best observed when visiting medieval temples. Architecture ...

Because of the unity of its architecture and decoration, the result of research of the first Gothic era, its immense influence on the art of Middle Age Christianity, Chartres Cathedral appears as an ...

The cathedrals ... Early English Gothic, to the majesty of the Renaissance at St Paul's and the sixties modernism of Liverpool's Roman Catholic Cathedral. In the Middle Ages and up to the ...

European monarchs and religious entities had a penchant for erecting massively elaborate and intricately beautiful monuments ...

This includes an increasing interest in preserving and restoring older buildings, with a need to understand the different styles of Gothic architecture. In 1817, the architect Thomas Rickman is one of ...

Criterion (i): Bourges Cathedral is of considerable importance in the development of Gothic architecture and as a symbol of the strength of Christianity in medieval France. However, its principal ...

The show argues that many leading modernists were paradoxically fascinated with the past, in particular the medieval Gothic ... made several sketches of Gothic cathedrals and their rose windows ...

For the first time in decades, the original surfaces of the upper walls were clean and brightly lit, a wonderful opportunity for scholars,” said Bruzelius, an internationally regarded scholar of ...

A masterpiece of Gothic architecture, stands as a profound ... 1000 years and it is the world’s northernmost Gothic medieval cathedral. Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, is a mosque and former ...

Nottingham’s St. Barnabas Cathedral in England has been awarded an approximately $2.2 million grant from the National Lottery ...

The Barri Gòtic, or Gothic Quarter, sits at the heart ... Here you'll find beautiful examples of Roman and Medieval-era architecture rubbing elbows with the many shops, restaurants, alfresco ...