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Who are two architects of the Gothic architecture style?
To be honest, I'm not sure what I'm asking either...I have something I have to finish for school on Gothic architecture, and the rubric is oh-so vague. Just throw some architects that did cathedrals at me, I can roll with that.
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- Please explain your question.
- Abbot Sugerio was the first person to build in a Gothic style...I'm not aware of anyone else working with him or has an association with him in this regard..this does not affirm that Gothic architecture had an inventor or architect...Sugerio's work is a good example of a theoretic trend that was already underway... So-called Gothic architecture was not the product of a single generation...it was the continuous logical development of the Romanesque movement, just as the latter in its time had been the outcome of a gradual adaptation of old traditions to new-born exigencies... Gothic architecture originated at the royal abbey church of St. Denis, built by Abbot Suger between 1137 and 1144...it was refined in the great churches of northern and central France, such as Amiens Cathedral (1220-70), notable for its great height and the slenderness of its columns, and the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris (1247-48), in which exceptionally large wall areas were filled with glass and tracery... The spread of Gothic to Germany was delayed until the mid-13th century, and in this country only a few cathedrals, such as the one in Cologne (begun 1248), approached the size and quality of the northern French prototypes...the most thorough application of northern Gothic to Italy was in the Milan Cathedral, built at the end of the 14th century by French and German masons...in general, the Italians tended to use Gothic as a decorative feature rather than as a total building system... Regards, hewholaughslast...
