Medieval architecture
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Medieval architecture was the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Gothic. In the fifteen
12th-century Romanesque nave of Durham Cathedral with rib vaulting.
The church of Santa María del Naranco, originally a palace, built in the pre-Romanesque Asturian style.
Pisa Cathedral and the Leaning Tower in the Pisan Romanesque style.
Sainte-Chapelle, Paris, built in the Rayonnant Gothic style between 1238 and 1248.
Gothic architecture
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Gothic architecture is an architectural style prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas
Medieval architecture
…the art and science of designing and constructing buildings in the Middle Ages. The major styles of the period included pre-Romanesque, Romanesque, and Gothic. In the fifteenth century, architects began to favour classical forms again, in the Renaissance style, marking the end of the medieval period. Many…
Wells Cathedral West Front Exterior, UK Diliff
Sainte Chapelle Interior Stained Glass
Rouen Cathédrale Primatiale Notre Dame de l'Assomption Fassade Mittelportal Tympanon 2
Pointed arches in the 14th-century tower of the church of San Salvador at Teruel in Aragon