Gothic architecture first emerged in mid-12th-century Paris with churches like the Basilica of Saint ... swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ones. The Renaissance, ...

Gothic architecture first emerged in the 12th century and was most closely related with church architecture, though other uses did exist. In religious settings, it was meant to suggest the superhuman.

The Gothic cathedral—from St.-Denis and Notre-Dame of Paris to Chartres, Reims, ... This new method of structural support, using a complex web of small diagonal arches, ...

Grant Wood’s American Gothic is a painting that’s puzzled generations who’ve stopped to wonder at the real meaning behind it. We all know it: a close-cropped portrait of a grim-faced Iowan ...

The Gothic is perhaps Europe’s most iconic style of Christian architecture. It first emerged in France in the 12th century and then spread across the continent.

“American Gothic” made this small-town Iowa house a destination. The painting’s “third character” has deep meaning in Eldon, along with economic importance, says the vistor center’s ...