Gothic
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Template:Wiktionarypar Gothic may mean:
As it relates to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe:
From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:
- High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture:
- Gothic art
- Gothic architecture
- International Gothic
- Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century
- Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
- Another name for Blackletter, a script developed in the Middle Ages
From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic), with grim overtones (e.g. from the contrast of Germanic mythology with classical Greek mythology):
- Gothic novel, 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:
- Gothic horror
- Gothic or Goth subculture
- Gothic rock
- Gothic-Doom
- Gothic fashion
- Gothic (computer game), a roleplaying computer game
- Gothic (movie), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
- Gothic (album), a 1992 album by the heavy metal band Paradise Lost
More recent uses:
- Another name for sans-serif typefaces
- Japanese gothic typeface, a common printing style in Japanese printing
- Gothic Chess, a chess variant
See also
ca:Gòtic da:Gotik de:Gothic es:Gótico eo:Goto fr:Gothique gl:Gótico hr:Gotika is:Gotneskur it:Gotico he:גותיקה nl:Gotisch ja:ゴシック pl:Gothic pt:Gótico ro:Arhitectură gotică ru:Готика sl:Gotika sv:Gotisk