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What is Gothic Art Style, Architecture
Art history of the 13 Century.
The Gothic style symbolized the glory of God and the church’s central place in European society for hundreds of years.
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century AD, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture.
It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern, and Central Europe.
Gothic art is a variable term depending on the craft, place, and time.
The term originated with the Gothic architecture which developed in France from about 1137 with the rebuilding of the Abbey Church of St-Denis(see it on the bottom).
The Gothic painting
The Gothic painting did not appear until around 1200 when it diverged from the Romanesque style.
National Gallery, London.
The Wilton Diptych (c. 1395–1399) is a small portable diptych of two hinged panels, painted on both sides, now in the National Gallery, London. It is an extremely rare survival of a late Medieval religious panel painting from England.
A Gothic style in sculpture
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.
In the cathedral of Chartres, France.
On the Easter Island.
The earliest Gothic art was monumental sculpture, on the walls of Cathedrals and abbeys.
