Paperback. Black title and stained glass image on the cream cover.

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A paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled. Please view the photographs. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Series: Pelican originals. ; A806 : Style and civilization. Physical description: 223p. ; 20cm. Subjects: Gothic art — Europe — History. Christian art and symbolism — Medieval, (500-1500).

Gothic art was a style of medieval art that developed in Northern France out of Romanesque art in the 12th century, led by the concurrent development of Gothic architecture. It spread to all of Western Europe, and much of Northern, Southern and Central Europe, never quite effacing more classical styles in Italy. In the late 14th century, the sophisticated court style of International Gothic developed, which continued to evolve until the late 15th century. 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 Renaissance styles, are typically used to define the periods in art in all media, although in many ways figurative art developed at a different pace.

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