ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -It originated in the Île-de-France and Picardy regions of northern France. The style at the time was sometimes known as opus Francigenum ( lit. ‘French work’); the term Gothic was first applied contemptuously during the later Renaissance, by those ambitious to revive the architecture of classical antiquity.

Detailed explanation-2: -The style was originally referred to as “French Work” (Opus Francigenum), and was used extensively by religious bodies, especially the Roman Catholic Church. The Gothic style was an evolution from Romanesque, which was marked by its many arches, vaulted ceilings and smaller stained glass windows.

Detailed explanation-3: -The term Gothic was coined by classicizing Italian writers of the Renaissance, who attributed the invention (and what to them was the nonclassical ugliness) of medieval architecture to the barbarian Gothic tribes that had destroyed the Roman Empire and its classical culture in the 5th century ce.

Detailed explanation-4: -The gothic style of architecture originated in Europe’s Middle Ages. It is characterized by vertical proportions, pointed arches, external buttressing, and asymmetry.

Detailed explanation-5: -Gothic originally meant “having to do with the Goths or their language, ” but its meaning eventually came to encompass all the qualities associated with Germanic culture, especially the Germanic culture dominant during the medieval period after the fall of Rome.