Gothic architecture
label: Gotisk arkitektur @sv
label: 哥特式建筑 @zh
label: Gotika arkitekturo @eo
label: Gotische Baukunst @de
label: Arquitectura gòtica @ca
label: Ailtireacht Ghotach @ga
label: Gotiek (bouwkunst) @nl
label: Arsitektur Gotik @in
label: Arkitektura gotikoa @eu
label: Architettura gotica @it
label: Arquitetura gótica @pt
label: Architecture gothique @fr
label: Готическая архитектура @ru
label: Gotická architektura @cs
label: Γοτθική αρχιτεκτονική @el
label: 고딕 건축 @ko
label: ゴシック建築 @ja
label: عمارة قوطية @ar
label: Готична архітектура @uk
label: Arquitectura gótica @es
label: Architektura gotycka @pl
subject: Category:12th-century architecture
subject: Category:14th-century architecture
subject: Category:13th-century architecture
subject: Category:Architectural history
subject: Category:European architecture
subject: Category:Gothic architecture
subject: Category:Architecture in England
subject: Category:Architectural styles
subject: Category:Medieval French architecture
subject: Category:Gothic art
subject: Category:Catholic architecture
subject: Category:Architecture in Italy
subject: Category:15th-century architecture
subject: Category:16th-century architecture
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image: Cefalu Cathedral interior BW 2012-10-11 12-07-53.jpg
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author: Christopher Wren
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yearsactive: Late 12th century–16th century
influenced: Gothic Revival architecture
influenced: Post-Gothic
influenced: Czech Baroque architecture
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text: This we now call the Gothic manner of architecture though the Goths were rather destroyers than builders; I think it should with more reason be called the Saracen style, for these people wanted neither arts nor learning: and after we in the west lost both, we borrowed again from them, out of their Arabic books, what they with great diligence had translated from the Greeks.
text: The Holy War gave the Christians, who had been there, an Idea of the Saracen Works, which were afterwards by them imitated in the West; and they refined upon it every day, as they proceeded in building Churches.
text: Nothing was thought magnificent that was not high beyond Measure, with the Flutter of Arch-buttresses, so we call the sloping Arches that poise the higher Vaultings of the Nave. The Romans always concealed their Butments, whereas the Normans thought them ornamental. These I have observed are the first Things that occasion the Ruin of Cathedrals, being so much exposed to the Air and Weather; the Coping, which cannot defend them, first failing, and if they give Way, the Vault must spread. Pinnacles are no Use, and as little Ornament.
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influences: Romanesque architecture, Byzantine architecture, and possibly Armenian architecture
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name: Gothic architecture
description: архитектурный стиль @ru
description: Baustil @de
description: یکی از سبک‌ها و دوره‌های تاریخی معماری @fa
description: arkkitehtuurin tyylikausi @fi
description: memarlıq üslubu @az
description: stil av arkitektur @sv