Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe ... came a “quest for height, starting with Notre-Dame de Paris,” according to Gajdošová.

The English edition was called The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ... movement that used pointed arches, letting more light into the building—a look now called Gothic. No doubt it made the older ...

But Gothic churches, though taller and grander, brought in construction innovations that avoided this. They were towering structures with pointed arches ... churches are Notre-Dame de Paris ...

From the pointed arches on the outside of the structures, to the grand vaults on the inside, Gothic architecture has given the world some masterpieces.Here are 6 famous structures that show the ...

As an example of Gothic architecture, it bears many iconic elements of the style: pointed arches, flying buttresses, tall spires, rib vaults, window tracery, and stained glass. But it was never ...

Each community tried to outdo the other. With churches featuring soaring naves supported by elaborate pointed arches and flooded with light, Gothic seemed to be emblematic of a Europe moving ...

“Radiocarbon dating reveals that Notre-Dame de Paris is indisputably the first Gothic cathedral where iron was thought of as a real building material to create a new form of architectur ...

For centuries, visitors thrilled to the cathedral’s soaring Gothic architecture, its gorgeous stained glass. But just as electrifying was its sound. Of Notre Dame, Victor Hugo wrote that it ...

Mary, Queen of Scots was married at Notre-Dame, Joan of Arc beatified ... For nearly 900 years, since construction began in 1163, the great Gothic cathedral had been a constant and gravitational ...