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The Goths were a so-called barbaric tribe who held power in various regions of Europe, between the collapse of the Roman Empire and the establishment of the Holy Roman Empire (so, from roughly the fifth to the eighth century).
16.1: Introduction. Gothic architecture, an introduction. 16.2: France. Basilica of St. Denis | Chartres Cathedral | Notre-Dame, Paris | Sainte-Chapelle | Saint Louis Bible. 16.3: Holy Roman Empire. Röttgen Pietà. 16.4: England. Ely Cathedral. 16.5: Gothic Jewish Art and Textbook Conclusion.
Louise Nevelson, a leading sculptor of the twentieth century, pioneered site-specific and installation art with her monochromatic wood sculptures made of box-like structures and nested objects. Nevelson emigrated with her family from czarist Russia to the United States in 1905, settling in Rockland, Maine.
Gothic art flourished in Western Europe with monumental sculptures and stained-glass window decorated cathedrals - marked by the pointed Gothic arch.
Gothic art was a medieval art style that emerged in Northern France in the 12th century AD from Romanesque art, aided by the parallel development of Gothic architecture. It extended across Western Europe, as well as most of Northern, Southern, and Central Europe, but never completely supplanted more classical forms in Italy.
Gothic art, the painting, sculpture, and architecture characteristic of the second of two great international eras that flourished in western and central Europe during the Middle Ages. Gothic art evolved from Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century to as late as the end of the 16th.
Subject to regional and temporal variations, Gothic art shaped human perception in Europe for nearly four centuries.
