Saint-Denis, as well as other Early Gothic churches like Sens Cathedral and ... swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ones. The Renaissance, however, reverted back to ...

But the word ‘Gothic’ was first associated with an architectural style that began with churches in France in the 12 th Century CE. Until this period, churches usually had heavy solid walls and ...

Another, a small church, is in the village of Arbore ... The real treasures were hidden behind those walls: modest, three-room Gothic churches, covered from bottom to steeple-top with Byzantine ...