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The word Gothic comes from a Germanic tribe named the Goths. Unlike Romanesque buildings Gothic Cathedrals had tall spires that go upward. Gothic Art was a medieval style of art that was developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD. It quickly spread to all of Western Europe. It included panel paintings, sculpture, stained glass, illuminated manuscripts, and fresco. The very first Gothic piece of art was found on the walls of cathedrals and abbeys. This great era started in 1137 along with the rebuilding of the choir of the abbey church of St. Denis. Abbot Suger that was the leader at St. Denis felt his church was both spiritual and political center of New France. They had Romanesque architecture, which was very …show more content…

He used bright colors along with gold; he added towers, a string of chapels, which had been lit with stained glass. Suger believed that the light was the new Gothic style and that it was the physical and material manifestation of the Devine Spirit. He said that although the church was bright and beautiful it was designed to elevate the soul to the realm of God. The most used Gothic floor plan was in the form of a cross. The arm going across it is called the transept. I mention nave in this writing, which is the center aisle of the church. As the Gothic Art developed over the year’s French craftsmen encountered themselves working better and more with stained glass. Many others churches began to follow in such change adding and renovating structures and adding more light in the churches. The style for example in Italy is very different. Choir of Cologne Cathedral, Germany, thirteenth and Fourteenth centuries. The exterior of Florence Cathedral is not even Gothic at all. Its interior is Gothic in character the b=naves were built in such a way to feel more spacious and give a sense of tranquility and measure rather than mystery and evoked by most Gothic

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