Gothic

Gothic may refer to:

The Goths

• Relating to Gorgeous peoplea group of Germanic peoples;
• Gothic language, a German dead tongue that was spoken by the ancient Goths;
  • Crimea Gothic, local variant of that language;
• Gothic alphabetadaptation of the Greek alphabet to the Gothic language;
• Gothic war, denomination of several wars between Goths and Romans; (disambiguation)
• Claudio II or Claudio Gothic, Roman emperor who used that cognomen;

Art

• Gothic artdeveloped in Western Europe since the end of the centuryXII until the beginning of the centuryXVI (not to be confused with art of the godosalthough the origin of the denomination had that pejorative intention:
  • Gothic sculpture;
  • Gothic painting;
  • Gothic architecture;
  • Periods, epochs or phases of the Gothic (the journalization was coined by the historiography of art especially for the architecture and for the area of the center of France—the labels "archaic", "classic", "manier" and "barroco" correspond to an evolutionary view of the artistic styles):
    • Initial Gothicfirst Gothic, primitive Gothic, preclassic Gothic or archaic Gothic;
      • Art cisterciens (associated at the beginning of the Cistercian Order)
    • Full, pure, high Gothic or Classic Gothic;
    • Gothic radiant (Raynnantor gothic manierist;
    • Gothic late, lategothic, final Gothic or Baroque Gothic;
      • Gothic flower;
      • Gothic flamyger (flamboyant);
      • International Gothic (see International Gothic painting);
  • Local Gothic Styles:
    • Gothic anngevinGothic Plantagenet or Western Gothic;
    • Italian Gothic:
      • Duecent (sixteenth century)XIII);
        • Duecent paint;
      • Trecento (sixteenth century)XIV);
      • in Italy Quattrocento (sixteenth century)XV) is no longer considered Gothic, but Renaissance;
    • Gothic in Central Europe:
      • Hallenkirche or Hall Church;
      • Baltic GothicGothic, Hanseatic or Gothic brick;
    • English Gothic:
      • First Gothic English (Early English), initial Gothic in England;
      • Gothic decorated or curvilineum (Decorated Gothic), full Gothic in England;
      • Perpendicular Gothic (Perpendicular Gothic), final Gothic in England;
    • On the Iberian peninsula (Spanish Gothic(c):
      • By arts:
        • Gothic architecture in Spain;
        • Gothic painting in Spain;
        • Gothic sculpture in Spain;
      • By kingdoms:
        • Manuel Stylefinal Gothic in Portugal;
        • Islamic Gothic or style Catholic Kings, final Gothic in Castile;
        • Gothic of the Crown of Aragon;
          • Gothic Aragonese, commonly used expression for Gothic in the Kingdom of Aragon, although it may designate that of the entire Crown, including the Kingdom of Valencia, the Kingdom of Majorca and the Catalan counties;
          • Levantine Gothicfinal Gothic in the Eastern or Mediterranean kingdoms of the Crown of Aragon (the Spanish Levant);
          • Catalan Gothicin Catalonia;
          • Valencian Gothicin the Kingdom of Valencia;

• Neogotic architecture, historicalist style (especially in architecture), developed from the centuryXIX. It should not be confused with Gothic, medieval art.
• Muscular GothicNeogotic phase.

Typography

• Gothic script, a type of letter that originates in the centuryXII and was later used in the printing press.

Military history

• Gothic lineGerman defensive line in the Apennines at the final stage of World War II.

Literature, music, cinema

The use of the adjective «Gothic» as equivalent to «sinister» or «morbid», which is established from the revitalization of medievalism in the romantic era:

• Gothic captive or literature of terror (see also horror novel):
  • Gothic Collection, editorial collection of Gothic narrative of the Spanish publishing house Valdemar;
  • Southern GothicSubgender of the Gothic novel in the United States;
• Gothic horror film:
• Horror comic Gothic;
• Gothic videogame;
• Gothic subculturea contemporary subcultural movement (from the end of the centuryXX.), with various manifestations:
  • Gothic music, concept that applied to music of the Middle Ages and Gothic period (sixteenth to fifteenth);
  • Since the end of the centuryXX. also applies, as a musical genre within the Gothic Subculture:
    • Gothic rock, musical style inside rock;
    • Gothic metal, musical style inside the metal;
    • Gothic (album)of the English band Paradise Lost;
  • Gothic LolitaJapanese fashion style.

Literary and artistic works

• American GothicGrant Wood's picture;
• Gothic (film)Ken Russell, 1986;
• L.A. GothicJohn Carpenter's film project.

Other uses

• Gothic chess
• Gothic furnace
• Gothic wall
• Gothic Quarter of Barcelona
• Gotham City (Gothic City) in the comic Batman.
• Gothic southpark (personage of south park called Gothic)