Evidence is plentiful that early and later also he has been indebted to the Gothic romancers, who deal in extravagant horror, to the symbolists writing at the end of the preceding century, and in particular to the stream-of-consciousness novelists, Henry James and James Joyce among them.

One, the ABCDE order later used in Phoenician, has continued with minor changes in Hebrew, Greek, Armenian, Gothic, Cyrillic, and Latin ; the other, HMĦLQ, was used in southern Arabia and is preserved today in Ethiopic.

Although this culture has conventionally been identified with the migration of the Gothic ethnos into the region from the Northwest, Todd argues that its most important origin is Scytho-Sarmatian.

In summing up the painting's impact, author Martha Tedeschi has stated: " Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most paintings — regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value — have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every viewer.

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein ; or, the Modern Prometheus ( 1818 ) has come to define Gothic fiction in the Romantic period.

Reynolds was also responsible for The Mysteries of London which has been accorded an important place in the development of the urban as a particularly Victorian Gothic setting, an area within which interesting links can be made with established readings of the work of Dickens and others.

As with many of the buildings in Gothic novels, the abbey also has a series of tunnels.

The English term has cognates in the other Germanic languages: Old Saxon heƀan " sky, heaven ", Middle Low German heven " sky ", Old Icelandic himinn " sky, heaven ", Gothic himins ; and those with a variant final-l: Old Frisian himel, himul " sky, heaven ", Old Saxon / Old High German himil, Dutch hemel, and modern German Himmel.

The genre has ancient origins which were reformulated in the eighteenth century as Gothic horror, with publication of the Castle of Otranto ( 1764 ) by Horace Walpole.

As the only surviving work on Gothic origins, the Getica has been the object of much critical review.

The area has seen an increase in tourism, particularly with regard to the beaches at the Baltic Sea, Isle of Rügen, the Mecklenburg Lakeland ( Mecklenburgische Seenplatte ), the Mecklenburg Switzerland ( Mecklenburgische Schweiz ) with its pristine nature, and the old Hanseatic towns well known for the famous Brick Gothic churches.

It has even been suggested that Gothic haiþi is not related to " heath " at all, but rather a loan from Armenian hethanos, itself loaned from Greek ἔθνος ethnos.

Spalatro has a typically Gothic Italian setting, featuring a bandit as hero, à la Ann Radcliffe ( whose 1797 novel The Italian includes a repentant minor villain of the same name ).

In addition to film, Raimi has worked in television, producing such series as Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and its spin off Xena: Warrior Princess, both featuring his younger brother Ted Raimi and long-time friend Bruce Campbell, American Gothic, Cleopatra 2525, M. A. N. T. I. S., 13: Fear Is Real, Young Hercules, and Jack of All Trades.

* Toruń has the largest number of preserved Gothic houses in Poland, many with Gothic wall paintings or wood-beam ceilings from the 16th to the 18th centuries

His style emphasized pathos and emotion, helped by his virtuoso carving of billowing drapery ; it has been called " late Gothic Baroque ".

It has cognates in several other Germanic languages including Gothic wair, Old High German wer, and Old Norse verr, as well as in other Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit ' vira ', Latin vir, Irish fear, Lithuanian vyras, and Welsh gŵr, which have the same meaning.

He has a Gothic father and an Alan mother.

Gothic has Ansila and Ansemund, and Old High German Anso, Anshelm, Anshilt, Anspald, Ansnôt.

It was designed by the firm of Hubert, Pirsson & Company in a style that has been described variously as Queen Anne Revival and Victorian Gothic.

The façade has three notable Gothic portals, while the interior houses a polyptych by Gandolfino d ' Asti and other works.

It has a Renaissance exterior and Gothic interiors.

The main difference from other ancient Indo-European languages, such as Latin, is that verbs can be conjugated in only two tenses ( vs. the six " tenses " – really tense / aspect combinations – of Latin ), and have no synthetic passive voice ( although it did still exist in Gothic ).

If his paintings were sternly criticized as " Gothic ," no comparable criticism was leveled at his drawings.

There can be no doubt that the term ' Gothic ' as applied to pointed styles of ecclesiastical architecture was used at first contemptuously, and in derision, by those who were ambitious to imitate and revive the Grecian orders of architecture, after the revival of classical literature.

The structural beauty of the Gothic arch means, however, that no set proportion had to be rigidly maintained.

However, no timbers existed that were long enough to cross that distance, and Wren dismissed the obvious solution of a Gothic roof.

The Gothic Symphony lasts for nearly two hours, the last symphony of all, No. 32, barely twenty minutes, and yet it is no less substantial.

This would have been done no later than 1383, when the Gothic loggetta on the exterior of the dome was added, along with the buttressing arches on which it rests.

In Northern Europe " Late Gothic " continuations of the style, especially in its decorative elements, could still be found until the early 16th century, as no alternative decorative vocabulary emerged to replace it before Renaissance Classicism.

There was no equivalent for pictorial art of the " Gothic survival " found in architecture, once the style had finally died off in Germany, England and Scandinavia, and the Gothic Revival long focused on Gothic Architecture rather than art.

' There is no reason to suspect that this particular place of incarceration was more than a flight of romantic elaboration on existing unpleasant places of confinement described during the Gothic Revival period.

The towers were described by the presenter as " my favorite monument – built by a man who had no more scientific equipment than the Gothic mason ".

Aside from his rather bold vaults, the peculiarities of his work can also be seen in the design of pillars ( with classic, bell-shaped columns which were almost forgotten by High Gothic ), the ingenious dome vault of new St Wenceslaus chapel, the undulating clerestory walls, the original window tracery ( no two of his windows are the same, the ornamentation is always different ) and the blind tracery panels of the buttresses.

The town library, the cultural hall, the daycare centre and the primary school all stand right on the brook, the Rodau, in Ober-Roden ’ s centre and together with the stately Gothic Parish Church of St. Nazarius ( locally sometimes called the Rodgaudom – Rodgau Cathedral – although it is no such thing ), some timber-frame houses and a comfortable outdoor café lend the town centre a certain flair.

Although there are many statues to Wallace scattered across Scotland, from Aberdeen in the north-east to Dryburgh in the Scottish borders, though these are all surpassed by the Gothic extravagance of the National Wallace Monument looms over the site of the battle of Stirling Bridge, there is no similar monument to Moray.

During Operation Olive, the major Allied offensive in the autumn of 1944, which commenced on 25 August, the Gothic Line defences were penetrated on both the Eighth Army and Fifth Army fronts ; but, there was no decisive breakthrough.

The Gothic Line was breached on both the Adriatic and the central Apennine fronts during Operation Olive ( also sometimes known as the Battle of Rimini ) during the autumn of 1944, but Kesselring's forces were consistently able to retire in good order, and no decisive breakthrough was achieved.

Similarly, there are no signs for labiovelars in the Elder Futhark ( such signs were introduced in both the Anglo-Saxon futhorc and the Gothic alphabet as variants of p ; see peorð.

The pointed arches, but thick walls and no pillars, suggest an early Gothic design.

Moreover, in 6th century Italy, the Roman Empire no longer existed ; the rule of Gothic kings prevailed.

Tite assisted Laing in the rebuilding of St Dunstan's church: according to an article published in the Architect in 1869, Tite entirely designed the new building, Laing himself having no knowledge of Gothic architecture.

There was no Elder Futhark rune for the phoneme, so that unlike those of most Gothic letters, the name does not continue the name of a rune ( but see qairþra ).

His style shows no trace of Italian influence, but a very clear and organised Gothic.