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Originated by the Goths, this style followed the Romanesque style. Gothic architecture developed for the construction of religious buildings for the most part. More than any other style the Gothic is the result of a new structural design for entirely made stone buildings, therefore a purely architectural creation combining the art of geometry, engineering and physics.

The rib vaults and pointed arches serve as framework for Gothic skeletal construction. Slender skeletal structures permitted natural light to enter the buildings. In terms of decoration we can appreciate deep carvings using human figures and the entire medieval bestiary in stone, animals like gargoyles and monsters of all sorts along with floral motifs are represented constantly.

Gothic is perhaps the most architectural of all styles since it almost entirely developed for building design.