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15 unusual facts about Gothic art


Adlington Hall

The rooms in the south wing include family sitting rooms decorated with Rococo style ceilings, and Gothic and Chinoiserie motifs.

Anna utca

The door and window sides have Gothic parts, and some parts of the wall were built during the Middle Ages.

Batty Langley

The eccentric landscape designer, who gave some of his numerous children names like Hiram, Euclid, Vitruvius and Archimedes, even attempted to "improve" Gothic forms by giving them classical proportions.

Coat of arms of Bratislava

The coat of arms depicts, on a red late Gothic background, a silver, three-tower fortification with a gate in the centre.

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.

Granadan school of sculpture

Gothic sculptures were brought to Granada in the era of the Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella.

Helferskirchen

The community’s arms take the shape of a late Gothic rounded shield with a horizontal upper edge and sides meeting it at right angles.

Lüen

The interior is covered with gothic paintings from the studio of the Waltensburger Master, from the mid 14th Century.

North Walsham

In the parish church of St. Nicholas can be found the ornate tomb of Sir William Paston; the remains of medieval painted screens; a telescopic Gothic font canopy; a unique Royal Arms Board; an ancient iron bound chest; and many other ancient artifacts.

Opera in German

Weber's most important successor in the field of Romantic opera was Heinrich Marschner, who further explored the Gothic and the supernatural in works such as Der Vampyr (1828) and Hans Heiling (1833).

Reinhard III, Count of Hanau

A Late Gothic winged altarpiece at Wörth am Main from around 1485-1490 – originally from St. Mary's Church in Hanau – depicts Count Philip the Younger and his ancestors, including Reinhard III and his wife.

St. Mark's Church, Zagreb

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

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque

Poe may have been using these terms as subdivisions of Gothic art or Gothic architecture in an attempt to establish similar subdivisions in Gothic fiction.

Zorneding

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


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.

Aachen Cathedral Treasury

These items included the Karlsschrein, the Marienschrein, Bust of Charlemagne, the Cross of Lothar, the ivories, the codices, and the two great Gothic reliquaries (Charlemagne's reliquary and Three Towers reliquary).

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.

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.