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Germanic tribe

• Goths (Gothos, Getas, Gota), a Germanic tribe
• The Gothic language, the language of the Goths
  • Gothic alphabet

This article is about the Germanic tribes. ... Gothic is an extinct Germanic language that was spoken by the Goths. ...   The Gothic alphabet is an alphabetic writing system attributed by Philostorgius to Wulfila, used exclusively for writing the ancient Gothic language. ...

Renaissance Art

From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:

• High Middle Ages European art, especially architecture:
  • Gothic art

The cathedral Notre Dame de Paris, a significant architectural contribution of the High Middle Ages. ... The Western (Royal) Portal at Chartres Cathedral ( 1145). ...

Architecture

• Gothic architecture
• International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
• Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century, in its early, fanciful phase sometimes spelled "Gothick"
• Brick Gothic-a reduced style of Gothic architecture in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources. The resultant style is called Backsteingotik in Germany
• Victorian High Gothic
• Polish Gothic
• Portuguese Late Gothic (Manueline)

Interior of Cologne Cathedral Interior of San Zanipolo, Venice, photo Giovanni dallOrto. ... International Gothic is a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s. ... Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin San Sebastian Church in Manila, Philippines made entirely of steel. ... Holstentor in Lübeck - background left , right St. ... St. ... This page has few or no links to other articles. ... Gothic style came to Poland in the 13. ... In architecture, manueline is the sumptuous, composite Portuguese style of architectural ornamentation of the first decades of the 16th century, incorporating maritime elements and discoveries brought from the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral. ...

Romanticism

From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:

• Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.

From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy: Strawberry Hill, an English villa in the Gothic revival style, built by seminal Gothic writer Horace Walpole Gothic fiction is an important genre of literature that combines elements of both horror and romance. ...

• Goth subculture, a subculture in the context of the Post-punk and Dark Wave movement
  • Gothic rock
  • Goth slang
  • Gothic aesthetics
  • Gothic fashion

• Gothic Romanticism
• Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
• Southern Ontario Gothic
• Gothic double - literary concept

This article is about the late 20th / early 21st century subculture. ... Gothic rock (sometimes called goth rock or simply goth) is a genre of rock music that originated during the late 1970s. ... Goth slang is the slang of the goth subculture. ... This article or section is incomplete and may require expansion and/or cleanup. ... Gothic fashion is a clothing style worn by members of the Goth subculture. ... Gothic Romanticism is a genre used in literature, film, the visual and performing arts, and the creative arts to describe a merger between Gothic and Romanticism. ... Southern Gothic is a subgenre of the Gothic writing style, unique to American literature. ... Southern Ontario Gothic is a sub-genre of the Gothic novel genre and a feature of Canadian literature that comes from Southern Ontario. ... In literature, the term Gothic double refers to an essential duality within a single character on the further presumption that this duality centers on the polarity of good and evil. ...

Typefaces

• Another name for sans-serif typefaces
  • Century Gothic
  • Franklin Gothic
  • News Gothic
  • Copperplate Gothic
  • Bank Gothic
  • Benguiat Gothic
• East Asian gothic typeface, a common printing style in East Asian printing
• Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages
• Clothing & Jewellry Gothic(Gothic Historical inspired) Nocturnal Nostalgia

In typography, serifs are the small features at the end of strokes within letters. ... Century Gothic is a sans-serif typeface created by Monotype Studios. ... Designed in 1902 by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders company, Franklin gothic still reigns as one of the most-widely used sans serif typefaces. ... News Gothic is a realist sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton, and released by the American Type Founders (ATF) in 1908. ... Copperplate Gothic is a typeface designed by Frederic W. Goudy in 1901. ... Bank Gothic is a rectilinear geometric sans-serif typeface designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders (ATF) in 1930. ... Benguiat Gothic is a sans-serif typeface that was created in 1979 by Ed Benguiat. ... Common digital Japanese/Korean gothic typefaces Gothic typeface (Japanese: , Goshikku-tai; Korean: , ; Godik-che) is a typeface characterised by strokes of even thickness, reduced curves, and lack of decorations, akin to sans serif styles in Western typography. ... “Black letter” redirects here. ...

Nature

• Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
• Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.

Binomial name Naenia typica Linnaeus, 1758 The Gothic (Naenia typica) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. ... Gothics is the tenth highest peak in the High Peaks Region of the Adirondack State Park in New York, USA. Much of the mountain is covered in bare rock slides, which give the mountain its name due to their resemblance to Gothic architecture. ...

Film

• Gothic (film) Ken Russell film.

Gothic is a 1986 film directed by Ken Russell. ... Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell, known as Ken Russell (born July 3, 1927), is an iconoclastic English film director, particularly well-known for his films about famous composers and his controversial, often outrageous pioneering work in film. ...

Video Game

• Gothic (computer game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels Gothic II and Gothic 3.

Gothic is a computer role-playing game by Piranha Bytes, a German developer. ... official logo Piranha Bytes is a German computer game developer best known for their Gothic computer role-playing game series. ... Gothic II is a computer role-playing game and the sequel to Gothic, developed by Piranha Bytes. ... Gothic 3 is a fantasy-themed role-playing game for Windows from German game developer Piranha Bytes. ...

Novel

• The Japanese novel and manga Goth.

Serialized in Original run 2004 – 2004 No. ...

See also

• Gothenburg (disambiguation)
• Gothicismus
• Sturm und Drang
• Gothika
• American Gothic (disambiguation)

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