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9 unusual facts about Gothic


Architecture of Luxembourg

The Romano-Gothic church in the village of Holler in the north of Luxembourg dates back to the 12th century.

Couffy

The main body of the church was rebuilt towards the end of the 12th century in the Primitive Gothic style.

Fortifications of Rhodes

The town mostly developed under the Knights of St John, which accounts for its predominantly Gothic architecture.

Gothic art

Regional variations of architecture remained important, even when, by the late 14th century, a coherent universal style known as International Gothic had evolved, which continued until the late 15th century, and beyond in many areas.

In the late 14th century, the sophisticated court style of International Gothic developed, which continued to evolve until the late 15th century.

Romano-Gothic

Combining ribbed vaults and the Romanesque tradition, the cathedrals of Angers (1149–1159) and Poitiers (1162) are examples of a primitive Gothic art, more austere and less well lit.

Sluštice

Baroque church of St. James the Greater from the 18th century (1746-1749), original Gothic from the 13th century was badly damaged by a fire in 1716.

World of Darkness

The apocalyptic theme present in cWoD has been removed from nWoD, as have the "Gothic-Punk" aspects of the world setting.

The theme of the Classic World of Darkness is described as "Gothic-Punk" by the developers.


Aachen Altar

The Aachen Altar (de: Aachener Altar) or Passion Altar (Passionsaltar) is a late gothic passion triptych in the Aachen Cathedral Treasury, made by the so-called Master of the Aachen Altar around 1515/20 in Cologne, Germany.

Abbey of St. Vaast

The abbey church, which had been desecrated and partially destroyed, was rebuilt and consecrated in 1833 and now serves as the cathedral of Arras, substituting for the former Gothic cathedral destroyed during the Revolution.

Anders Uppström

A journey in 1860 to Rome, Milan, and Wolfenbüttel, financed by the sons of his childhood patron Petré, resulted in Fragmenta gothica selecta (1861) and another journey to the Ambrosian Library in Milan in 1863 to study the so-called Ambrosian Gothic manuscripts led to Codices gotici ambrosiani, which was published posthumously by his son Anders Erik Wilhelm Uppström in 1868.

Anne Plichota

With her fellow Strasbourg librarian Cendrine Wolf she co-authored Oksa Pollock (2007-2013), a French fantasy series, and a second more "gothic" trilogy Susan Hopper (first novel published March 2013).

Art for Everyday

Employing woodcarving technology and hand crafting techniques, Art For Everyday uses themes and motifs inspired by nature and historical aesthetics, particularly the Baroque, Renaissance and Gothic era.

Avranches Cathedral

The seat of the Bishop of Avranches, it was a Gothic construction, notable as the place of the penance of Henry II of England in 1172 for the murder of Thomas Becket.

Battle of Naissus

The Battle of Naissus (268 or 269 AD) was the defeat of a Gothic coalition by the Roman Empire under Emperor Gallienus (or Claudius II) near Naissus (Niš in present-day Serbia).

Biblical manuscript

Parts of the New Testament have been preserved in more manuscripts than any other ancient work, having over 5,800 complete or fragmented Greek manuscripts, 10,000 Latin manuscripts and 9,300 manuscripts in various other ancient languages including Syriac, Slavic, Gothic, Ethiopic, Coptic and Armenian.

Bishopscourt

Bishopscourt, East Melbourne, a gothic architecture building in East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Bosherston

Since its restoration by the Cawdor family in 1855, its highbacked old pews have disappeared and its Norman windows have been replaced by those of later Gothic design.

Church of Avaldsnes

– Style: Gothic, related to a type common in Bergen

Cobham Hall

The fourth earl, who inherited in 1781, employed James Wyatt extensively, for interiors that included the Picture Gallery and the Dining Room, and for stables and a Gothic dairy.

Demetri Porphyrios

Most of his buildings resemble traditional high architecture such as Gothic and Greco-Roman Classical buildings.

East Asian gothic typeface

The term “gothic” is now rare in English, having been largely replaced by "sans-serif" except in the names of some typefaces such as "Century Gothic".

El Fadrí

El Fadrí, also known as the Fadri Tower, is a standing alone bell-tower of the Gothic procathedral Concatedral de Santa Maria of Castellón de la Plana, Spain.

Emma Tennant

Born in London, she was educated at St Paul's Girls' School and spent the World War II years and her childhood summers at the family's faux Gothic mansion The Glen in Peeblesshire.

Emo, County Laois

The village pub, named The New Inn (now called "The Gate House"), dates from the village’s foundation as does the Gothic Catholic Church which contains the tomb of Aline, the Lady Portarlington, with its recumbent effigy by Joseph Boehm.

Espedair Street

As Banks' first novel to eschew 'special effects', not being Gothic horror like The Wasp Factory, a literary mystery (Walking on Glass), or science fiction, most critics regard it as one of his most accessible works.

Francis Lathom

But Lathom was not only a Gothic novelist: about half his works are works of contemporary satire or attempts at fiction in the mode of Walter Scott.

Galleria dell'Accademia

As well as a number of Florentine Gothic paintings, the gallery houses the idiosyncratic collection of Russian icons assembled by the Grand Dukes of the House of Lorraine, of which Leopoldo was one.

Germanic umlaut

Cercignani, Fausto, Alleged Gothic Umlauts, in «Indogermanische Forschungen», 85, 1980, pp.

Gothic Lolita Propaganda

Gothic Lolita Propaganda is Yōsei Teikoku's first major debut album, released on April 25, 2007.

Gothic science fiction

In his history of science fiction, Billion Year Spree, Brian Aldiss contends that science fiction itself is an outgrowth of gothic fiction-- pointing to Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein as an example.

Jarno Sarkula

Despite his unshakable demeanor Sarkula entertained audiences with his verbal acrobatics which often had gothic undertones and even by doing skits relating to games he was reviewing (while reviewing Serious Sam he did an imitation of the Headless Screaming creatures in the game).

Közi

Közi has continued this visual style to some extent, but his contemporary stage costumes are more gothic.

Lewis Nockalls Cottingham

Calvert Vaux became in 1843, an articled pupil of Cottingham, who was one of the elders of the English Gothic Revival, had supervised the sometimes overzealous restoration of a number of important medieval churches.

Martin Koolhoven

Martin Koolhoven is currently working on a Gothic western, called Brimstone, which will be his first production for N279 Entertainment as a director.

Master of 1302

His works were basically Gothic in style, with modernized touches; his name comes from a set of votive frescos painted for bishop Gerardo de' Bianchi, who died in 1302; among these is a Madonna and Child Enthroned with an Angel and John the Baptist, including a portrait of the donor, located in the Baptistry of Parma.

Maximilianeum

Due to statical problems the construction was only completed in 1874 and the facade of the Maximilianeum which was originally planned also in neo-Gothic style had to be altered in renaissance style under the influence of Gottfried Semper.

New Brunswick Route 1

However, the city, along with the provincial and federal governments, decided to bargain with the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR) to purchase the majority of the Mill Street Yard near the neo-gothic Union Station for a highway alignment which would run through the middle of the city (somewhat like the infamous Interstate 93 alignment which was built through Boston).

Old Gothic Barns

The Old Gothic Barns were a pair of historic agricultural buildings near the city of Cincinnati in Green Township, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States.

Oviedo Cathedral

Cristóbal de Rojas (1546–56) affixed his coat-of-arms to the completed tower, with its octagonal pyramid, one of the marvels of Gothic architecture.

People's Houses

Notably these were built according to neo-Gothic style, as promoted by Augustus Pugin and John Ruskin: Pugin believed the harmonious style of the architecture could influence morality, while Ruskin in his book The Stones of Venice examined the architecture of the Italian Renaissance mercantile republics, believing it expressed the spirit of freedom.

Periodization

Giorgio Vasari coined the term "Gothic" in an effort to describe, particularly architecture, that he found objectionable, supposedly saying "it is as if the Goths built it".

Periwig Maker

The short film utilizes several characteristics of the Gothic style.

Phyllis Hartnoll

A collection of her poems The maid's song and other poems was published by Macmillan in 1938 and she wrote the introduction to the Gothic novel Zastrozzi by Percy Bysshe Shelley which was republished in a limited edition by The Golden Cockerel Press in 1955.

Prague 2

Important sights:Charles Square- the biggest square in Prague and also among the biggest squares in Europe - with the New City Hall / Gothic town hall, Church of Saints Cyril and Methodius, the Botanical Gardens and several Charles University buildingsin Albertov, as well as the Baroque Villa America.

Robert Aickman

The most detailed biographical and critical study is Gary William Crawford's Robert Aickman: An Introduction (Gothic Press, 2003).

Salon de la Rose + Croix

Among the most influential works included at the Salon were the "Gothic fantasies" of painter Arnold Böcklin, the music of Erik Satie, painters Fernand Khnopff, Ferdinand Hodler, Jan Toorop, Gaetano Previati, Jean Delville, Carlos Schwabe, and Charles Filiger.

Samuel Daukes

St Saviour's Church, Tetbury, (GLOS): 1845–48, Gothic Revival; the clergy house (27–29 Church St.) is also attributed to Daukes

Screams for Tina

Reviews of their music have cited influences ranging from Bauhaus, The Sisters of Mercy and Joy Division, to the Psychedelic Furs among other, similar post-punk and gothic rock-related bands of the 1980s.

Sigma Alpha Epsilon

Construction of the Temple, an immense German Gothic structure located near Lake Michigan and across from the Northwestern University campus, was started in 1929, and the building was dedicated in the winter of 1930.

St. Mark's Church, Zagreb

The Gothic composition of the portal consists of fifteen effigies placed in eleven shallow niches.

Stendal

Other buildings include the Gothic cathedral, the Town Hall with the statue of Roland and the two mediaeval town gates.

Strixton

Inside the church there is a 15th-century screen which is the only late Gothic feature of the church and Nikolaus Pevsner reports that it is "...simple with one light division".

The Curse of Frankenstein

It also marked the beginning of a Gothic horror revival in the cinema on both sides of the Atlantic, paralleling the rise to fame of Universal's Dracula and Frankenstein series in the 1930s.

Tottenham High Cross

The high cross was constructed of plain brick, in an octagonal, four level design, which was later stuccoed and ornamented in the Gothic style in 1809.

Tunø

Tunø church was most likely built in the 14th century in a Romanesque style, however it has undergone many refurbishments and now stands as a Gothic church with stepped gables or corbie steps.

Zorneding

Martin (parish church), late Baroque, built 1719 to 1723, Late Gothic Madonna at the choir arch, Gothic baptismal font, richly stuccoed.


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