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  2. Gothic art - Wikipedia

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    In many areas, especially Germany, Late Gothic art continued well into the 16th century, before being subsumed into Renaissance art. Primary media in the Gothic period included sculpture, panel painting, stained glass, fresco and illuminated manuscripts. The easily recognisable shifts in architecture from Romanesque to Gothic, and Gothic to ...

  3. List of literary movements - Wikipedia

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    Literary movements are a way to divide literature into categories of similar philosophical, topical, or aesthetic features, as opposed to divisions by genre or period. Like other categorizations, literary movements provide language for comparing and discussing literary works. These terms are helpful for curricula or anthologies. [1]

  4. Gothic fiction - Wikipedia

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    The mysterious imagination necessary for Gothic literature to have gained any traction had been growing for some time before the advent of the Gothic. The need for this came as the known world was becoming more explored, reducing the geographical mysteries of the world. The edges of the map were filling in, and no dragons were to be found.

  5. Renaissance literature - Wikipedia

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    Renaissance literature refers to European literature which was influenced by the intellectual and cultural tendencies associated with the Renaissance.The literature of the Renaissance was written within the general movement of the Renaissance, which arose in 14th-century Italy and continued until the mid-17th century in England while being diffused into the rest of the western world. [1]

  6. List of gothic fiction works - Wikipedia

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    Gothic fiction (sometimes referred to as Gothic horror or Gothic romanticism) is a genre of literature that combines elements of both horror fiction and romanticism Contents: Top

  7. Gothicism - Wikipedia

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    Erik Gustaf Geijer was a member of the 19th-century Gothic League (or the Geatish Society), which propagated the now-familiar image of the Viking as a heroic Norseman. Gothicism or Gothism ( Swedish : Göticism Swedish pronunciation: [ˈjøːtɪsˌɪsm] ; Latin : Gothicismus ) was an ethno-cultural ideology and cultural movement in Sweden ...

  8. Gothic book illustration - Wikipedia

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    The Wenceslas workshop produced exceptional examples of Gothic book illustration between 1387 and 1405. These include the six-volume Wenceslas Bible, [54] the Golden Bull, [15] and a manuscript of Willehalm. [55] It is worth noting that the work during this period is highly regarded for its quality and attention to detail.

  9. Gothic sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Detail of the main altar of the Miraflores Charterhouse, Spain. Gil de Siloé.Polychrome wood, 1496–1499. Gothic sculpture was a sculpture style that flourished in Europe during the Middle Ages, from about mid-12th century to the 16th century, [Note 1] evolving from Romanesque sculpture and dissolving into Renaissance sculpture and Mannerism.