What is the history of the Gothic style of architecture?

Question

Where did this style originate from?
Cathredals built in Gothic style were copied from what previously, if anything?
Who invented or came up with this style?
Goths. okay, but my main question is , how did this style originate? how did it evolve ?

ONE ARGUMENT IS THAT "GOTHIC" ARCHITECTURE IS NOT REALLY FROM THE GOTHIC TRIBES. WHICH DO YOU KNOW TO BE TRUE ?

Answer 1

In order of your questions,

1. For a full history read the links below but, very basically, it started in France in the late 1100s and lasted until the Renaissance.

2. The style is first recorded in the abbey church of St.
Denis in France designed by Abbey Suger.

3. The Gothic style was not copied from anything (unless you are thinking of the Gothic revival prevalent in the Victorian Age). It stemmed from technological invention, specifically the pointed arch, which allowed great load bearing. This, in turn, allowed for thinner walls which did not have to take the main weight of the roof, and therefore allowed penetrations to be put in for stained glass windows.

4. The term has little to do with the Goths themselves, other than the fact that term was used as an insult during the Renaissance when Gothic architecture was seen to be barbarous.

Answer 2

Where Did Gothic Architecture Begin

Answer 3

Gothic architecture is a style of architecture, particularly associated with cathedrals and other churches, which flourished in Europe during the high and late medieval period. Beginning in twelfth century France, it was known as "the French Style" (Opus Francigenum) during the period, with the term Gothic first appearing in the Reformation era as a stylistic insult.

It was succeeded by Renaissance architecture beginning in Florence in the fifteenth century. The style originated at the abbey church of Saint-Denis in Saint-Denis, near Paris, where it exemplified the vision of Abbot Suger. Suger wanted to create a physical representation of the Heavenly Jerusalem, a building of a high degree of linearity that was suffused with light and color. The façade was actually designed by Suger, whereas the Gothic nave was added some hundred years later.
In English seventeenth century usage, "Goth" was an equivalent of "vandal," a savage despoiler with a Germanic heritage and so came to be applied to the architectural styles of northern Europe before the revival of classical types of architecture. On 21 July 1710, the Académie d'Architecture met in Paris, and among the subjects they discussed, the assembled company noted the new fashions of bowed and cusped arches on chimneypieces being employed "to finish the top of their openings. The Company disapproved of several of these new manners, which are defective and which belong for the most part to the Gothic."Gothic architecture has nothing to do with the historical Goths.
The Gothic style emphasizes verticality and features almost skeletal stone structures with great expanses of glass, ribbed vaults, clustered columns, sharply pointed spires, flying buttresses and inventive sculptural detail such as gargoyles.

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Answer 4

The term 'Gothic' was originally used in a disparaging sense. It was first introduced into French by the writer Rabelais and later an Italian, Giorgio Vasari referred to 'the manner formulated by the Goths'......as being 'monstrous and barbarian'. The word was used originally to denote arbitrary, discordant and rough in relation to Nordic culture as opposed to Latin and Mediterranean culture of beauty and harmony. This kind of connotation was to last until the 18th century, but even then the term was said to date back to Germanic tribes and primitive wooden structures they built in forests as places or worship. As others have said the style can, in fact, be traced back to 12th century France and the church of Saint-Denis near Paris, built at the instigation of Abbott Suger in 1140. It is impossible to give one name as the 'inventor' of the style. It is typified by light and airy interiors which differed dramatically from the preceding Norman or Romanesque style,. The use of pointed, rather than rounded, arches, allowed for far greater openings and permitted reliance on piers alone for support, rather than piers and columns. The pointed arch had been introduced in the 9th century in Islamic architecture in Northern Africa. In England, the style evolved through Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular styles.

Again, in England, at the end of the 18th and throughout the 19th centuries there was a Gothic revival and building were designed in what was thought to be a medieval style - see the Houses of Parliament and Tower Bridge, for example.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

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