Late Gothic sculpture of Rupert of Salzburg ( c 660 – 710 ).

During the Middle Ages, Gothic sculpture represented the agonies and passions of the Christian faith.

According to Lester Burbank Bridaham, writing in Gargoylaes, Chimeres and the Grotesque in French Gothic Sculpture, " There is much symbolism in the sculpture of Gothic period ; but we must be wary of reading in too much meaning.

The chapter house has many sculptured heads above the canopies, representing some of the finest Gothic sculpture in the country.

Nicola Pisano has pushed 13th century Tuscan sculpture in the direction of a Gothic art that already integrated the noble features of Roman art, while simultaneously staying attached to the Gothic art from Northern Europe.

He is best known for his sculpture which shows the influence of both the French Gothic and the Ancient Roman art.

Chartres cathedral c. 1220 ; the best High Gothic sculpture had largely rediscovered the art of naturalistic figure representation.

A Gothic style in sculpture originates in France around 1144 and spread throughout Europe, becoming by the 13th century the international style, replacing Romanesque, though in sculpture and painting the transition was not as sharp as in architecture.

The invention of a comprehensive mathematically based system of linear perspective is a defining achievement of the early 15th century Italian Renaissance in Florence, but Gothic painting had already made great progress in the naturalistic depiction of distance and volume, though it did not usually regard them as essential features of a work if other aims conflicted with them, and late Gothic sculpture was increasingly naturalistic.

* The Upper Cloisters: designed by Wyatt but completed circa 1824 by Wyatville in the Gothic style contain neoclassical sculpture, and curios such as a lock of Queen Elizabeth I's hair, and Napoleon I's dispatch box and paintings by the Brueghel brothers.

Later Gothic buildings continued to use flying buttresses but often embellished them with crockets on the flyers and figural sculpture in niches or aedicules set into the buttresses.

City Museum has a substantial collection of medieval art ( Gothic chests, architecture, sculpture, ceramics, etc.

The exhibitions present the reconstructed Gothic fountains from the Royal Palace, Renaissance sculpture in Visegrád, and the history of Visegrád.

The work of these two sculptors and architects epitomises the Gothic style in Venice: they are best known for their work on the Doge's Palace and in particular the Porta della Carta with its monumental sculpture of the judgement of Solomon.

Gothic sculpture, late 15th century.

Primary media in the Gothic period included sculpture, panel painting, stained glass, fresco and illuminated manuscripts.

The earliest Gothic art was monumental sculpture, on the walls of Cathedrals and abbeys.

Painting in a style that can be called Gothic did not appear until about 1200, or nearly 50 years after the origins of Gothic architecture and sculpture.

The Gothic period is essentially defined by Gothic architecture, and does not entirely fit with the development of style in sculpture in either its start or finish.

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.

Mainly an architectural movement, Gothic was characterised by its detailed ornamentation most noticeably the pointed archways and elaborate rib vaulting.

First developed in France, Gothic was intended as a solution to the inadequacies of Romanesque architecture.

However, during the time of Arianism's flowering in Constantinople, the Gothic convert Ulfilas ( later the subject of the letter of Auxentius cited above ) was sent as a missionary to the Gothic barbarians across the Danube, a mission favored for political reasons by emperor Constantius II.

Amalaric ( Gothic: Amalareiks ), or in Spanish and Portuguese, Amalarico, ( 502 – 531 ) was king of the Visigoths from 526 until his assassination in 531.

" More serious than the destruction of the Gothic army ," writes Herwig Wolfram, " than the loss of both Aquitanian provinces and the capital of Toulose, was the death of the king.

And according to rumour, exposing the Visigoths in battle was a convenient way of weakening the Gothic tribes.

The stream was temporarily turned aside from its course while the grave was dug wherein the Gothic chief and some of his most precious spoils were interred.

Alaric was succeeded in the command of the Gothic army by his brother-in-law, Ataulf, who married Honorius ' sister Galla Placidia three years later.

Historians consider this the decisive factor in convincing Alboin to undertake a migration, even though there are indications that before the war with the Gepids a decision was maturing to leave for Italy, a country thousands of Lombards had seen in the 550s when hired by the Byzantines to fight in the Gothic War.

File: Vilnius. Sv. Onos baznycia. Saint Ann's church2. jpg | Gothic St. Anne's Church in Vilnius was constructed on his initiative in 1495-1500.

The castle was built between 1864 and 1879 on a cliff by the Atlantic ocean, and was designed by Viollet Le Duc in the Neo Gothic style.

The Castello Vecchio (" old castle "), a ruined citadel, was believed to be Roman but turned out to have Gothic features.

Battle of Adrianople ( 378 ) was the main battle of the Gothic War ( 376-382 ).

The architectural style is a mixture of Victorian Gothic, Tudor and Dutch Baroque and was the subject of much bemused comment from those who worked there, or visited, during World War II.

It is generally assumed by scholars that the Bastarnae's original home was around the Vistula river ( central Poland ) and that they migrated south-eastwards to the Black Sea region around 200 BC ( as, 400 years later, did the Gothic ethnos ).

In Gothic architecture, light was considered the most beautiful revelation of God.

* St. Nicholas Cathedral-a monumental 13th century Gothic church ( cathedral only from 1992, before it was a parochial church ), damaged by fire in the late 18th century, then destroyed in World War II and reconstructed

In Denmark too, church wall paintings or kalkmalerier were widely used in the Middle Ages ( first Romanesque then Gothic ) and can be seen in some 600 Danish churches as well as in churches in the south of Sweden which was Danish at the time.

Walpole was obsessed with medieval Gothic architecture, and built his own house, Strawberry Hill, in that form, sparking a fashion for Gothic revival.

Walpole's forgery, together with the blend of history and fiction that was contravening the principles of the Enlightenment, brought about the Gothic novel's association with fake documentation.

* A 15th-century Gothic house ( now a museum ) where Copernicus was reputedly born

Veit Stoss ( also: Veit Stoß ; ; before 1450-about 20 September 1533 ) was a leading Bavarian ( though he was born in Swabia ) sculptor, mostly in wood, whose career covered the transition between the late Gothic and the Northern Renaissance.

Vigevano is crowned by the Castello Sforzesco, a stronghold rebuilt 1492 – 94 for Ludovico Maria Sforza ( Ludovico il Moro ), the great patron born in the town, who transformed the fortification / hunting lodge of Luchino Visconti ( who in turn had re-used a Lombard fortress ) into a rich noble residence, at the cusp of Gothic and Renaissance.

Vitalian seems to have been of local Latinised Dacian-Getic ( Thracian ) stock, born in Scythia Minor or in Moesia ; his father bore a Latin name, Patriciolus, while two of his sons had Thracian names and one a Gothic name.

There is also a memorial tablet to Francis Bond, the late 19th century authority on Gothic architecture, who was born in the village.

* 1827 – William Burges, Gothic Revival architect in Britain, is born.

* Ernest Pratt, played by Richard Dean Anderson, was born into a good, conservative Boston family in 1836 and attended Harvard College for a short time, where he fell under the spell of the Romantic poets and Gothic literature.

The Newberry Library in the present day. Henry Ives Cobb ( August 19, 1859 – March 27, 1931 ), born in Brookline, Massachusetts to Albert Adams and Mary Russell Candler Cobb, was a Chicago-based architect in the last decades of the 19th century, known for his designs in the Romanesque and Victorian Gothic styles.

Most Jesse Trees include Mary immediately beneath the figure of Jesus ( or, in the Gothic period, show a Virgin and Child ), emphasising that she was the means by which the shoot of Jesse was born.

Gothic architecture was born in the middle of the twelfth century in Île-de-France, when Abbot Suger built the abbey at St. Denis, c. 1140, considered the first Gothic building, and soon afterward, the Chartres Cathedral, c. 1145.