Page 4 - Gothic

GOTHIC

Gothic art was a style of me- In many areas, especially Germany,
dieval art that developed in North- Late Gothic art continued well into

ern France out of Romanesque the 16th century, before being sub-

art in the 12th century AD, led sumed into Renaissance art. Pri-

by the concurrentdevelopment of mary media in the Gothic period
Gothic architecture. It spread to included sculpture, panel painting,

all of Western Europe, and much stained glass, fresco and illuminated

of Southern and Central Europe, manuscripts.The easily recognizable
never quite effacing more clas- shifts in architecture from Roman-

sical styles in Italy. In the late esque to Gothic, and Gothic to Re-

14th century, the sophisticated naissance styles, are typically used to

court style of International Goth- define the periods in art in all me-
ic developed, which continued to dia, although in many ways figura-

evolve until the late 15th century. tive art developed at a different pace.

The besotted taste of Gothic monuments,
These odious monsters of ignorant centuries,

Which the torrents of barbary spewed forth.