Gothic ARCHITECTURE is a good joke
TerryC.
had with Writing and Philosophy.A more appropriate name for the the
Architecture which is described as Gothic could be Greco-Roman.I doubt very
much that some barbarians born in the forests like the Goths were capable of
teaching the Romans or Italians new architectural styles.Some Architectural
text books in United States call the so called Gothic Architecture a
pseudonym.
Alex Green
You might like to check the thread on sci.archaeology entitled Re: Sphinx,
where the origin of the pointed arch was recently discussed.
Sincerely,
Alex Green
Ars artis est celare artem
P. M. Puddu-Collu
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Regarding the origin of the pointed arch;
I've followed the discussion you refer to but I didn't get the impression
the
participants had real understanding of what they were talking about.
Architecture IS Art and, unfortunately, it needs much more than a quick
reading
of some books to get acquainted with specific concepts.
regards,
-Pietro Mario Puddu-Collu
Alex Green
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>> You might like to check the thread on sci.archaeology entitled Re:
>Sphinx,
>> where the origin of the pointed arch was recently discussed.
>
>
>Regarding the origin of the pointed arch;
>I've followed the discussion you refer to but I didn't get the impression
>the
>participants had real understanding of what they were talking about.
Are you contributing to the discussion or just hand waving?
>Architecture IS Art and, unfortunately, it needs much more than a quick
>reading
>of some books to get acquainted with specific concepts.
Such as?
Alex Green
tribes
>had with Writing and Philosophy.A more appropriate name for the the
>Architecture which is described as Gothic could be Greco-Roman.I doubt very
>much that some barbarians born in the forests like the Goths were capable
of
>teaching the Romans or Italians new architectural styles.Some Architectural
>text books in United States call the so called Gothic Architecture a
>pseudonym.
"Gothic art, the painting, sculpture, architecture, and music
characteristic of the second of two great international eras that flourished
in western and central Europe during the Middle Ages. Gothic art evolved
from Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century to as late as the
end of the 16th century in some areas. 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 AD. The term retained
its derogatory overtones until the 19th century, at which time a positive
critical revaluation of Gothic architecture took place. Although modern
scholars have long realized that Gothic art has nothing in truth to do with
the Goths, the term Gothic remains a standard one in the study of art
history."
Quoted from Britannica CD 97
Ranjit Mathews
> The Goths has had as much in common with architecture as the Germanic tribes
> had with Writing and Philosophy.A more appropriate name for the the
> Architecture which is described as Gothic could be Greco-Roman.I doubt very
> much that some barbarians born in the forests like the Goths were capable of
> teaching the Romans or Italians new architectural styles.Some Architectural
> text books in United States call the so called Gothic Architecture a
> pseudonym.
It was a derisive term originally as the initial "Gothic" styles were looked
down upon and therefore labelled "Gothic".