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Abstract
The Gothic existed long before it became a genre-word. In origin, it is a race-term, referring to the Goths who, from their tribal homelands in Germany or Scandinavia, invaded central and southern Europe and helped to bring down the Roman Empire (Goths under Alaric sacked Rome in ad 410). For the Renaissance scholars who recovered Roman culture, the Gothic meant whatever was pre-Roman. For the Italian art historian Vasari, it meant non-classical architecture, built in the perpendicular or pointed-arch style, and dating from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries.
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Abstract
The Gothic existed long before it became a genre-word.
In origin, it is a race-term, referring to the Goths who, from their tribal homelands in Germany or Scandinavia, invaded central and southern Europe and helped to bring down the Roman Empire (Goths under Alaric sacked Rome in ad 410).
For the Renaissance scholars who recovered Roman culture, the Gothic meant whatever was pre-Roman.
For the Italian art historian Vasari, it meant non-classical architecture, built in the perpendicular or pointed-arch style, and dating from the twelfth to sixteenth centuries.
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