The Gothic style originating in the powerful monasteries of the Paris region – dominated much of European art and architecture for 400 years. By the mid-12th century, advances in building technology,

The Gothic style originating in the powerful monasteries of the Paris region – dominated much of European art and architecture for 400 years. By the mid-12th century, advances in building technology,

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The Gothic style

originating in the powerful monasteries of the Paris region – dominated much of European art and architecture for 400 years. By the mid-12th century, advances in building technology, increasing financial resources, and new intellectual and spiritual aspirations led to the development of a new art and architecture that expressed that religious and political values of cloistered Christian communities. Soon bishops and rulers, as well as abbots, vied to build the largest and most elaborate churches. Just as residents of twentieth-century American cities raced to erect higher and higher skyscrapers, so too the patrons of western Europe competed during the