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Gothic is a period in the development of medieval art in Western, Central and partly Eastern Europe from the 12th to the 15th-16th centuries. Gothic came to replace the Romanesque style, gradually replacing it. The term "Gothic" is most often applied to a well-known style of architectural structures that can be briefly described as "eerily majestic". But Gothic covers almost all works of fine art of this period: sculpture, painting, book miniature, stained glass, fresco and many others.

Gothic originated in the middle of the 12th century in northern France, in the 13th century it spread to the territory of modern Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Spain, and England. Gothic penetrated into Italy later, with great difficulty and a strong transformation, which led to the emergence of "Italian Gothic". At the end of the 14th century, Europe was engulfed by the so-called international Gothic. Gothic penetrated into the countries of Eastern Europe later and lasted there a little longer - until the 16th century.

For buildings and works of art containing characteristic Gothic elements, but created in the eclectic period (mid-19th century) and later, the term "neo-Gothic" is used.

At the beginning of the 19th century, the term "Gothic novel" began to denote the literary genre of the Romantic era - the literature of secrets and horrors (the action of such works often unfolded in "Gothic" castles or monasteries). In the 1980s, the term "gothic" began to be used to refer to the musical genre that arose at that time ("gothic rock"), and then the subculture that formed around it ("gothic subculture").

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