During his general audience on Nov. 18, Pope Benedict XVI explained how Christian faith in the Middle Ages inspired some of the greatest works of art of all time: the cathedrals of Europe. Dear ...

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 ...

(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 ...

Editor’s Note: Mark Foster Gage is an American architect and founder of Mark Foster Gage Architects in New York. He is also a professor of architecture at Yale University School of Architecture.

If all that remained of architecture from the 12th to the 16th centuries were the astonishing diagrams now on view in “Gothic by Design” at the Met Museum, you might suppose you were looking at wild ...

It has been eight centuries, to the year, since Pope Honorius III issued an edict to raise money for a new cathedral in the city of Metz. And while it would be years before the first stone was laid, ...

While Europe is home to the most impressive, original Gothic cathedrals, you can find churches in the Gothic-revival style ...

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 ...

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 ...