Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Gothic book illustration, or gothic illumination, originated in France and England around 1160/70, while Romanesque forms remained dominant in Germany until around 1300. Throughout the Gothic period , France remained the leading artistic nation, influencing the stylistic developments in book illustration .
Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe , and much of Northern , Southern and Central Europe , never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
The simple shape of the lancet arch may appear in Early Gothic buildings on openings of all types, doorways, niches, arcades, including galleries; and belfry openings. [ citation needed ] The use of lancet windows is found in the Early Gothic architecture of France, at Saint-Denis, and Sens and Senlis cathedrals.
Simple English; Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски ... Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 15th-century drawings (2 C, 4 P) E. Early Netherlandish art ...
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare 'to colour with minium', a red lead [1]) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Donate
His drawing of one of the west facade towers of Laon Cathedral and those of radiating chapels and a main vessel bay, interior and exterior, of Rheims Cathedral are of particular interest. Villard tells us, with pride, that he had been in many lands ( Jai este en m[u]lt de tieres ) and that he made a trip to Hungary where he remained many days ...