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| The ] – some five East Germanic tribes in the Migration Age after the fall of the West Roman Empire. | The ] – some five East Germanic tribes in the Migration Age after the fall of the West Roman Empire. | ||
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| The Gothic language is an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the ]. It is the the Germanic language with the earliest attestation, primarily from the ], a 6th century copy of a 4th century ] translation. | The Gothic language is an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the ]. It is the the Germanic language with the earliest attestation, primarily from the ], a 6th century copy of a 4th century ] translation. | ||
| It is divided into three subgroupes: Western Gothic, Eastern Gothic and ]. |
It is divided into three subgroupes: Western Gothic, Eastern Gothic and ]. | ||
| ==Renaissance Art== | ==Renaissance Art== | ||
| From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, ''gotico'', with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence: | From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, ''gotico'', with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence: | ||
| * ] European art, especially architecture: |
* ] European art, especially architecture: | ||
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Gothic or Goth may refer to:
Gothic people
The Goths – some five East Germanic tribes in the Migration Age after the fall of the West Roman Empire.
Gothic language
The Gothic language is an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths. It is the the Germanic language with the earliest attestation, primarily from the Codex Argenteus, a 6th century copy of a 4th century Bible translation. It is divided into three subgroupes: Western Gothic, Eastern Gothic and Crimean Gothic.
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:
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)
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:
- Goth subculture, a subculture in the context of the Post-punk and Dark Wave movement
- Gothic Romanticism
- Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
- Southern Ontario Gothic
- Gothic double - literary concept
Typefaces
- Another name for sans-serif typefaces
- 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
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.
Film
- Gothic (film) Ken Russell film.
Video Game
- Gothic (computer game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels Gothic II and Gothic 3.
Novel
- The Japanese novel and manga Goth.
See also
Topics referred to by the same term
This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Gothic.If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Category: