Recognizable for its pointed arches and rib vaults, Gothic architecture was Europe’s primary building style for cathedrals from the late 12th to the 16th century. It evolved from its heavier ...

AMMAN — Origins of the Gothic architecture can be traced back to the Syrian architectural tradition, said author and cultural writer Diana Darke.The Islamic architecture was built on “a huge legacy of ...

Before the Cleveland Museum of Art started its $350 million expansion and renovation in 2005, the galleries that housed Islamic art and late Gothic and Renaissance art from Europe were downright ...

Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ones. The Renaissance, however, reverted back to the ancient Roman way of ...