They soar impossibly skyward, their spires pierce clouds, and their stained glass transforms sunlight into kaleidoscopes of color. Gothic cathedrals represent medieval architecture's greatest ...

My civilization is based on the cult of Man through individuals. For centuries, it has sought to show Man, just as it would have taught people to distinguish a cathedral from its stones. It preached ...

Gothic cathedrals were meant to overwhelm. And they do—even their secular-minded 21st-century visitors. Can we enter any other space in which ordinary sensory dimensions seem so stymied? Inside a ...

Winter is a particularly Gothic time of year. The trees are bare, darkness falls early in the afternoon, and in 2026, yet another iteration of "Wuthering Heights" is in theaters. With temperatures ...

Few architectural styles are more visually striking than Gothic cathedrals. Due to their elaborate design and extraordinary construction, they aren’t exactly commonplace, but across Europe there are ...

(This program is no longer available for online streaming.) Take a dazzling architectural journey inside those majestic marvels of Gothic architecture, the great cathedrals of Chartres, Beauvais and ...

The Gothic art period flourished in Europe from the mid-12th to the 16th century, and it is defined by clerical architecture involving intricate stained glass windows, pointed arches, as well as ...