The oldest surviving architectural drawings are of Strasbourg Cathedral, which was begun around 1250, but this façade elevation from about a decade later is so visually sophisticated that it suggests ...

They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

During his general audience on Nov. 18, Pope Benedict XVI explained how Christian faith in the Middle Ages inspired some of the greatest works of art of all time: the cathedrals of Europe. Dear ...

Constructed over nearly six centuries, Milan Cathedral is the largest Gothic cathedral in Italy and the third largest in the world. Its construction began in 1386, under the vision of Archbishop ...

If we learned anything from the recent fire and reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris, it is that the building of a Gothic cathedral depends on countless prosaic operations—the felling of oak trees, ...

The Cathedral Church of St. Peter and St. Paul in the nation’s capital is a magnificent Neo-Gothic structure, based on 14th-century English models, that calls itself “Washington National Cathedral”: a ...

The Gothic art period flourished in Europe from the mid-12th to the 16th century, and it is defined by clerical architecture involving intricate stained glass windows, pointed arches, as well as ...

If all that remained of architecture from the 12th to the 16th centuries were the astonishing diagrams now on view in “Gothic by Design” at the Met Museum, you might suppose you were looking at wild ...