Gothic

Gothic may mean:

As it relates to the Goths (Gothos, Getas), a Germanic tribe:

From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, gotico, with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:

High Medieval northern European art, especially architecture:
*Gothic art
*Gothic architecture
*International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
*Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century
*Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
Gothic script: another name for Blackletter, a script developed in the Middle Ages

From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general (synonymously with Teutonic), with grim overtones:

Gothic novel, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later

From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:

Gothic horror
Gothic or Goth subculture
Gothic rock
Gothic metal
Gothic fashion
Gothic (computer game), a roleplaying computer game
Gothic (movie), a 1986 film by Ken Russell
Gothic (album), a 1992 album by the heavy metal band Paradise Lost

More recent uses:

Another name for sans-serif typefaces
Japanese gothic typeface, a common printing style in Japanese printing
Gothic Chess, a chess variant

Gothic

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