Word: gothicisms
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Descending in direct line from the monkish French Gothic manuscript illu - minators of the late Middle Ages, the Flemish school got its start in the early 14003 when Jan van Eyck, painter and "varlet de chambre" to the Duke of Burgundy, brought a brand-new vividness and brilliancy to the technique of painting...
Author Paul discovered his beloved street one soft summer night in 1923, when it was still possible "to do things without premeditation." After dropping into "the most perfect small Gothic church in France, St. Severin," he picked up a trollop named Suzanne. She steered him into the rue de la Huchette...
...more luminously splendid than that of the Renaissance, but that it was also more permanent. After much careful research, such famed U.S. glassmakers as Boston's Charles Jay Connick and Philadelphia's Nicola D'Ascenzo readopted the medieval method. The stained-glass makers of the "Gothic Revival" again worked entirely in medieval snippets...
...That Aztec craftsmen, who decorated every available square inch of their Spanish Gothic and baroque churches, created a native hybrid style known as Mexican churrigueresque, which in turn influenced the baroque and rococo architecture of Spain...
...That one Latin-American building, the great cathedral in Mexico City, contains the whole stratified history of Latin-American architecture on and within its four walls; it has Aztec foundations, a 16th-Century Gothic ceiling, baroque and churrigueresque chapels, Moorish tile-work, East Indian decorative motifs, is yet one of the most harmoniously beautiful structures in the Western Hemisphere...