Gothic Architecture
has nothing to do with the Goths, but is a term of contempt bestowed by the architects of the Renaissance period on mediæval architecture, which they termed Gothic or clumsy, fit for barbarians.
“St. Louis … built the Ste. Chapelle of Paris, … the most precious piece of Gothic in Northern Europe.”—Ruskin: Fors Clavigera, vol. i.
⁂ Napoleon III. magnificently restored and laid open this exquisite church.
