Gothic - 2 reference results
Gothic or Goth may refer to:
Germanic persons
Originally, the ethnonym of a group of East Germanic tribes.- The Goths –
- the Gothic language, an extinct East Germanic language, spoken by the Goths
- the Crimean Gothic, Gothic language spoken by the Crimean Goths
- the Gothic alphabet, one of the alphabets used to write the Gothic language
Late Medieval art
In the Late Middle Ages, "Germanic" (as opposed to "Romance")- Gothic art, a Medieval art movement
- International Gothic, a subset of Gothic art developed in Burgundy, Bohemia and northern Italy in the late 1300s and early 1400s
- Gothic architecture
- Gothic Revival architecture originating in the 18th century, in its early, fanciful phase sometimes spelled "Gothick"
- Brick Gothic-a reduced style of Gothic architecture in Northern Europe, especially in the regions around the Baltic Sea without natural rock resources.
- Carpenter Gothic
- Polish Gothic
- Portuguese Late Gothic (Manueline)
- Blackletter (Gothic script), a script developed in the Middle Ages
Romanticism
From the 18th century, the word came to gloomy or grim overtones in Romanticism:- Gothic Romanticism
- Gothic fiction, a British literary genre from the late 18th and early 19th century, with a Victorian revival a hundred years later.
- Gothic horror, a subgenre of film which combines elements of horror and romance in gothic settings
- Southern Gothic The dark and horrific genre of literature based in the Southern USA
- Southern Ontario Gothic
- Gothic double - literary concept
Goth subculture
The Goth subculture, developed on the foundations of Gothic rock.
- Gothic rock is a kind of rock music, sometimes with rather gloomy overtones.
- Goth slang
- Gothic aesthetics
- Gothic fashion
- Gothic Lolita
Sans-serif typeface
"Gothic" is another name for sans-serif typefaces (especially in US usage)- Century Gothic
- Franklin Gothic
- News Gothic
- Copperplate Gothic
- Bank Gothic
- Benguiat Gothic
- East Asian gothic typeface, a common printing style in East Asian printing
Other
- Gothic (moth), a species of noctuid moth named after its patterns reminiscent of Gothic architecture
- Gothic metal, a genre of music which combines the dark melancholy of goth rock with the aggression of Heavy Metal.
- Gothics, one of the Adirondack High Peaks in New York.
- Gothic (film), Ken Russell film.
- Goth (Silverwing Character), a fictional bat from the Silverwing series of novels
- Goth (novel), a Japanese novel, which was adapted into a manga
- Gothic F.C., a football club based in Norwich, England
- Gothic (video game) developed by Piranha Bytes followed by two sequels Gothic II and Gothic 3
- SS Gothic, a Corinthic-class passenger and cargo liner, used as a royal yacht by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom in the 1950s
- Goth (board game), a game based on horror trivia and pop-culture
See also
- Gothenburg (disambiguation)
- Gothicismus
- Sturm und Drang
- Gothika
- American Gothic (disambiguation)
- Gothicmed
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