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And Gothic didn't penetrate the eastern part of Europe which was pretty much dominated by Byzantine architecture, taking most of its influence from of course the middle east.
Wednesday, 01-Apr-15 20:32:59 UTC from web-
@nomorepuns That's also true, the movement mostly took popularity in Northern and Western Europe
Wednesday, 01-Apr-15 20:36:29 UTC from web-
Wednesday, 01-Apr-15 20:38:17 UTC from web
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@nomorepuns It actually originated in the 12th Century in France but didn't start picking up traction until the following century, and spread to most of Northern and Eastern Europe where it would become the dominant style of architecture and maintain it's influence until around the 16th Century.
Wednesday, 01-Apr-15 20:40:56 UTC from web-
@terezi Now here's a question. Why is it named after the group of Germanic peoples and not Gallic after what the area of France was called under the Roman Empire?
Wednesday, 01-Apr-15 20:44:13 UTC from web-
@nomorepuns Oh, it was because the term "Goth" was a colloquialism at the time for the East Germanic tribe of Vandals peoples, so the term itself was actually originally applied to the architecture in mockery as opposed to classification. Also, since this was around the time the Renaissance first started gaining traction, which in turn overwrote a culture which at the time because almost entirely based around the church, so this paradigm shift in culture coincidentally corresponded with a lot of the ideologies of East Germanic peoples, so the newly formed architecture that evolved from the period of Romanesque architecture was dubbed as "Gothic".
Wednesday, 01-Apr-15 20:51:21 UTC from web
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