Gothic_architecture

qas: question: What is one time period in which Gothic architecture flourished?
answers: text: late medieval period
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question: What style of architecture did Gothic architecture evolve from?
answers: text: Romanesque architecture
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question: What style of architecture came after the Gothic style?
answers: text: Renaissance architecture
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question: Where did the Gothic architecture style originate?
answers: text: France
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question: Gothic architecture is known for being commonly used in cathedrals and churches, what is one example of a lesser known type of structure in which Gothic architecture has been used?
answers: text: private dwellings, such as dorms and rooms
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question: What is one time period in which Gothic architecture was not allowed?
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question: What style of architecture did Gothic architecture devolve from?
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question: What style of architecture came along with the Gothic style?
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question: Where did the Gothic architecture style fail originally?
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question: What style of architecture no longer exists for castles?
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question: In what country is the tower often found detached from the main building?
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question: Who was the Malbork Castle built for?
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question: What style of architecture does the Houses of Parliament mock?
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context: Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Originating in 12th-century France and lasting into the 16th century, Gothic architecture was known during the period as Opus Francigenum ("French work") with the term Gothic first appearing during the later part of the Renaissance. Its characteristics include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. Gothic architecture is most familiar as the architecture of many of the great cathedrals, abbeys and churches of Europe. It is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guild halls, universities and to a less prominent extent, private dwellings, such as dorms and rooms.

qas: question: What is an example of where the Gothic style is expressed most strongly?
answers: text: churches and cathedrals
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question: Where do the emotions which traits of the Gothic style represent, originate from? 
answers: text: faith or from civic pride
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question: A great number of what type of buildings still remain from this period today?
answers: text: ecclesiastical
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question: With what organization are many Gothic cathedral listed with as World Heritage Sites?
answers: text: UNESCO
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question: Why are larger cathedrals and churches associated with the Gothic style?
answers: text: larger churches are considered priceless works of art
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question: Where is the Gothic style expressed least strongly?
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question: What are the emotions which traits of the Gothic style diminish?
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question: What is the only style of building that still remains from this period today?
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question: With what organization are many Gothic cathedrals unlisted as World Heritage Sites?
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question: Why are only smaller cathedrals and churches associated with the Gothic style?
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question: Which arm in England would generally show no distinct sections?
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question: In what century were distinct Gothic details used on new construction at Oxford and Cambridge?
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question: What style of architecture did Gothic architecture evolve from?
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context: It is in the great churches and cathedrals and in a number of civic buildings that the Gothic style was expressed most powerfully, its characteristics lending themselves to appeals to the emotions, whether springing from faith or from civic pride. A great number of ecclesiastical buildings remain from this period, of which even the smallest are often structures of architectural distinction while many of the larger churches are considered priceless works of art and are listed with UNESCO as World Heritage Sites. For this reason a study of Gothic architecture is largely a study of cathedrals and churches.

qas: question: What type of description did the term "Gothic architecture" originate as?
answers: text: a pejorative description
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question: Who used the term "barbarous German style" to portray what is known today as the Gothic style?
answers: text: Giorgio Vasari
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question: Who does Vasari believe destroyed ancient buildings after they conquered Rome?
answers: text: "the Goths"
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question: How long had Italy undergone building in a Classical architecture style at the time of Vasari?
answers: text: a century
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question: In what period was the Classical architecture vocabulary revived? 
answers: text: the Renaissance
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question: What type of description did the term "Gothic architecture" dismiss?
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question: Who used the term "barbarous German style" to portray what is known today as the Modern style?
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question: Who does Vasari believe destroyed new buildings after they fell to Rome?
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question: How long had Italy stopped building in a Classical architecture style at the time of Vasari?
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question: What period was the Classical architecture vocabulary forgotten?
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question: Europe experienced a rapid growth in what at this time?
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question: Where is the Gothic style expressed least strongly?
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question: What is another name for the twisted arch?
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context: The term "Gothic architecture" originated as a pejorative description. Giorgio Vasari used the term "barbarous German style" in his Lives of the Artists to describe what is now considered the Gothic style, and in the introduction to the Lives he attributes various architectural features to "the Goths" whom he holds responsible for destroying the ancient buildings after they conquered Rome, and erecting new ones in this style. At the time in which Vasari was writing, Italy had experienced a century of building in the Classical architectural vocabulary revived in the Renaissance and seen as evidence of a new Golden Age of learning and refinement.

qas: question: What type of structures remaining today have the largest amount of examples of the Gothic style?
answers: text: churches
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question: What is one region with which the Gothic style is distinctly connected with?
answers: text: Northern France
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question: What is another region with which the Gothic style is distinctly connected with?
answers: text: the Low Countries
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question: What is one country with which the Gothic style is distinctly connected with?
answers: text: England
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question: What is another country with which the Gothic style is distinctly connected with?
answers: text: Spain
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question: What type of structures remaining today have the only examples of the Gothic style?
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question: What is one region with which the Gothic style is distinctly forbidden?
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question: What is the only region with which the Gothic style is distinctly connected with?
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question: What country no longer has examples of Gothic buildings?
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question: In what century were distinct Gothic details used on new construction at Oxford and Cambridge?
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question: What is the unique design feature of English cathedrals?
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question: Which portion the cathedral was the reconstruction of the great Church of Saint-Denis begun?
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context: The greatest number of surviving Gothic buildings are churches. These range from tiny chapels to large cathedrals, and although many have been extended and altered in different styles, a large number remain either substantially intact or sympathetically restored, demonstrating the form, character and decoration of Gothic architecture. The Gothic style is most particularly associated with the great cathedrals of Northern France, the Low Countries, England and Spain, with other fine examples occurring across Europe.

qas: question: At the end of what century was Europe separated into several city states and kingdoms?
answers: text: the end of the 12th century
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question: What was the region covering modern Germany, southern Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and much of northern Italy known as?
answers: text: the Holy Roman Empire
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question: What modern country contains regions in which Plantagenet kings controlled large domains?
answers: text: modern France
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question: Poland was affected by trade connections with what League?
answers: text: the Hanseatic League
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question: What type of kings brought the Gothic style from France to Southern Italy?
answers: text: Angevin kings
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question: What century was Europe split into two city states and kingdoms?
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question: What modern country contains regions in which Plantagenet kings controlled small domains?
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question: What type of kings brought the Gothic style from France to Southern Asia?
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question: What league affected trade connections with Peru?
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question: What was the region covering modern Germany, northern Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and much of southern Italy known as?
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question: How many towers fell at the Salisbury Chapel?
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question: With what type of facade were buildings left with if they were to never be completed at a later time?
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question: What portion of Egyptian buildings are usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture?
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context: At the end of the 12th century, Europe was divided into a multitude of city states and kingdoms. The area encompassing modern Germany, southern Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic and much of northern Italy (excluding Venice and Papal State) was nominally part of the Holy Roman Empire, but local rulers exercised considerable autonomy. France, Denmark, Poland, Hungary, Portugal, Scotland, Castile, Aragon, Navarre, Sicily and Cyprus were independent kingdoms, as was the Angevin Empire, whose Plantagenet kings ruled England and large domains in what was to become modern France. Norway came under the influence of England, while the other Scandinavian countries and Poland were influenced by trading contacts with the Hanseatic League. Angevin kings brought the Gothic tradition from France to Southern Italy, while Lusignan kings introduced French Gothic architecture to Cyprus.

qas: question: Europe experienced a rapid growth in what at this time?
answers: text: trade
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question: What is one country that contained considerable and prosperous towns during this time?
answers: text: Germany
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question: What type of building was considered to be very important and a sign of affluence and achievement?
answers: text: Civic building
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question: What is one country that stayed mostly feudal and created spectacular architecture for its royalty rather than its burghers?
answers: text: England
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question: What is another country that stayed mostly feudal and created spectacular architecture for its royalty rather than its burghers?
answers: text: France
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question: What did Europe experience a rapid decline in at this time?
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question: What is the only country that contained considerable and prosperous towns during this time?
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question: What type of building was considered to be very unimportant and a sign of affluence and achievement?
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question: What is one country that stayed mostly feudal and created spectacular architecture for its burghers rather than its royalty?
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question: Why are larger cathedrals and churches associated with the Gothic style?
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question: What is the distinctive design element of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian Peninsula? 
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question: Which cathedral was first to be rebuilt in the new style from 1140 to 1241?
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context: Throughout Europe at this time there was a rapid growth in trade and an associated growth in towns. Germany and the Lowlands had large flourishing towns that grew in comparative peace, in trade and competition with each other, or united for mutual weal, as in the Hanseatic League. Civic building was of great importance to these towns as a sign of wealth and pride. England and France remained largely feudal and produced grand domestic architecture for their kings, dukes and bishops, rather than grand town halls for their burghers.

qas: question: What church was widespread across Europe at this time?
answers: text: The Catholic Church
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question: Who were bishops appointed by?
answers: text: by the feudal lords (kings, dukes and other landowners)
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question: Which periods saw a quick growth in Monasticism? 
answers: text: The early Medieval periods
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question: What types of church were the Benedictines known for?
answers: text: great abbey churches
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question: What is one type of Benedictine order that was common in France?
answers: text: Cistercian Orders
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question: What church was widespread across Asia at this time?
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question: Who were bishops killed by?
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question: Which periods saw a very slow growth in Monasticism?
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question: What types of church were the Benedictines unknown for?
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question: What is one type of Benedictine order that was rare in France?
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question: What is the unique characteristic of Italian Gothic design?
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question: What is the location of the Archbishop of Canterbury's dentist?
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question: What is one cathedral in which simple cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
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context: The Catholic Church prevailed across Europe at this time, influencing not only faith but also wealth and power. Bishops were appointed by the feudal lords (kings, dukes and other landowners) and they often ruled as virtual princes over large estates. The early Medieval periods had seen a rapid growth in monasticism, with several different orders being prevalent and spreading their influence widely. Foremost were the Benedictines whose great abbey churches vastly outnumbered any others in France and England. A part of their influence was that towns developed around them and they became centers of culture, learning and commerce. The Cluniac and Cistercian Orders were prevalent in France, the great monastery at Cluny having established a formula for a well planned monastic site which was then to influence all subsequent monastic building for many centuries.

qas: question: During what time period did Romanesque architecture become a pan-European style of construction?
answers: text: 10th to the 13th century
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question: What is one country in the geographic area that was affected by the development of the Gothic style of architecture?
answers: text: Croatia
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question: Why did country borders not affect differences in style within Gothic architecture?
answers: text: proximity of some regions
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question: During which period did regional differences in Romanesque architecture become even more pronounced?
answers: text: the Gothic
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question: England and what other country showed differences in architectural style rarely observed anywhere else?
answers: text: Spain
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question: What time period did Romanesque architecture become a pan-European style of destruction?
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question: What is the only country in the geographic area that was affected by the development of the Gothic style of architecture?
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question: Why did country borders not affect differences in style within Gothic architecture?
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question: Which period did regional similarities in Romanesque architecture become even more pronounced?
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question: What other country aside from England showed identical architectural style frequently observed everywhere else?
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question: What is another example of a cathedral in which the blending of Romanesque, Gothic and Islamic styles can be seen?
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question: How many towers fell at the Salisbury Chapel?
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question: What style of architecture does the Houses of Parliament exemplify?
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context: From the 10th to the 13th century, Romanesque architecture had become a pan-European style and manner of construction, affecting buildings in countries as far apart as Ireland, Croatia, Sweden and Sicily. The same wide geographic area was then affected by the development of Gothic architecture, but the acceptance of the Gothic style and methods of construction differed from place to place, as did the expressions of Gothic taste. The proximity of some regions meant that modern country borders do not define divisions of style. On the other hand, some regions such as England and Spain produced defining characteristics rarely seen elsewhere, except where they have been carried by itinerant craftsmen, or the transfer of bishops. Regional differences that are apparent in the great abbey churches and cathedrals of the Romanesque period often become even more apparent in the Gothic.

qas: question: Northern Germany, Netherlands, northern Poland, Denmark, and the Baltic countries used what building material in place of local stone?
answers: text: brick
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question: What was the name of the building style that resulted from the use of brick?
answers: text: Brick Gothic, is called "Backsteingotik"
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question: What building style was the Hanseatic League connected with in Germany and Scandinavia?
answers: text: "Backsteingotik"
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question: Why were many buildings covered with marble?
answers: text: Because of the extensive and varied deposits of marble
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question: With what type of facade were buildings left with if they were to completed at a later time?
answers: text: undecorated façade
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question: What was the name of the building style that resulted from the use of one brick?
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question: What building style was the Hanseatic League disconnected with in Germany and Scandinavia?
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question: Why were many buildings covered with marbles?
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question: With what type of facade were buildings left with if they were to never be completed at a later time?
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question: What time period did Romanesque architecture become a pan-European style of destruction?
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question: Poland was affected by trade connections with what League?
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question: What time period did Romanesque architecture become a pan-European style of destruction?
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context: In Northern Germany, Netherlands, northern Poland, Denmark, and the Baltic countries local building stone was unavailable but there was a strong tradition of building in brick. The resultant style, Brick Gothic, is called "Backsteingotik" in Germany and Scandinavia and is associated with the Hanseatic League. In Italy, stone was used for fortifications, but brick was preferred for other buildings. Because of the extensive and varied deposits of marble, many buildings were faced in marble, or were left with undecorated façade so that this might be achieved at a later date.

qas: question: What is Romanesque architecture known as in England?
answers: text: Norman architecture
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question: By the beginning of what century was the Romanesque style established all over Europe?
answers: text: the 12th century
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question: The Romanesque style continued to affect and inspire  the basic architectural forms throughout which period?
answers: text: the Medieval period
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question: What is one important category of building that was recognized during the Romanesque period?
answers: text: the cathedral church
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question: What is another category of building that was established during the Romanesque period?
answers: text: the palace
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question: What is Romanesque architecture no longer known as in England?
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question: What century was the Romanesque style forgotten all over Europe?
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question: What is one useless category of building that was recognized during the Romanesque period?
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question: What is the only category of building that was demolished during the Romanesque period?
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question: What portion of Gothic buildings are usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture?
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question: How many towers are found at the Salisbury Chapel?
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question: What portion of the reconstruction of Saint Denis was begun after the completion of the west front? 
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context: By the 12th century, Romanesque architecture (termed Norman architecture in England because of its association with the Norman invasion), was established throughout Europe and provided the basic architectural forms and units that were to remain in evolution throughout the Medieval period. The important categories of building: the cathedral church, the parish church, the monastery, the castle, the palace, the great hall, the gatehouse, the civic building, had been established in the Romanesque period.

qas: question: What was the most important single design aspect that separated the Gothic style from the Romanesque? 
answers: text: the pointed arch
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question: What is one example of a Gothic style element that was able to be incorporated because of technological innovation?
answers: text: the flying buttresses
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question: What is another example of a Gothic style element that was able to be incorporated because of technological innovation?
answers: text: traceried windows
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question: What is the name of the cathedral in Northern England that first displayed the use of the pointed arch?
answers: text: Durham Cathedral
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question: What is the name of the cathedral in Sicily that first displayed the use of the pointed arch?
answers: text: Cathedral of Cefalù
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question: What was the least important single design aspect that separated the Gothic style from the Romanesque?
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question: What is one example of a Gothic style element that was able to be ignored because of technological innovation?
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question: What is the name of the cathedral in Southern England that first displayed the use of the pointed arch?
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question: What is the name of the cathedral in Sicily that first displayed the use of the twisted arch?
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question: What is another example of a Gothic style element that was able to be forgotten because of technological innovation?
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question: What year was the High Victorian Gothic period in Africa?
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question: In what era had university towns grown in wealth and importance?
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question: What is the name of the surviving monastic building in England? 
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context: It was principally the widespread introduction of a single feature, the pointed arch, which was to bring about the change that separates Gothic from Romanesque. The technological change permitted a stylistic change which broke the tradition of massive masonry and solid walls penetrated by small openings, replacing it with a style where light appears to triumph over substance. With its use came the development of many other architectural devices, previously put to the test in scattered buildings and then called into service to meet the structural, aesthetic and ideological needs of the new style. These include the flying buttresses, pinnacles and traceried windows which typify Gothic ecclesiastical architecture. But while pointed arch is so strongly associated with the Gothic style, it was first used in Western architecture in buildings that were in other ways clearly Romanesque, notably Durham Cathedral in the north of England, Monreale Cathedral and Cathedral of Cefalù in Sicily, Autun Cathedral in France.

qas: question: What is one defining characteristic of the Gothic architectural style?
answers: text: The pointed arch
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question: Which type of architecture first used the pointed arch during the seventh century?
answers: text: Islamic architecture
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question: What other type of architecture also made use of the pointed arch?
answers: text: Sassanian architecture
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question: The Roman Karamagara Bridge is an example of what type of structure?
answers: text: secular structures
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question: Parabolic and pointed arches were used in what type of constrcution?
answers: text: palace and sacred construction
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question: What is the only defining characteristic of the Gothic architectural style?
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question: Which type of architecture first used the pointed arch during the fifth century?
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question: What other type of architecture also made use of the curved arch?
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question: What type of construction involved many twisted arches?
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question: How long had Italy undergone building in a Classical architecture style at the time of Vasari?
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question: What is considered the first truly Gothic building?
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question: What is the preferred narrative medium for the interior of Italian cinemas?
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context: The pointed arch, one of the defining attributes of Gothic, was earlier incorporated into Islamic architecture following the Islamic conquests of Roman Syria and the Sassanid Empire in the Seventh Century. The pointed arch and its precursors had been employed in Late Roman and Sassanian architecture; within the Roman context, evidenced in early church building in Syria and occasional secular structures, like the Roman Karamagara Bridge; in Sassanid architecture, in the parabolic and pointed arches employed in palace and sacred construction.

qas: question: What could have affected Medieval Europe's embracing of the pointed arch?
answers: text: cultural contacts with the Muslim world
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question: What event in the year 1090 could have had an effect on Medieval Europe's embracing of the pointed arch?
answers: text: the Norman conquest of Islamic Sicily
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question: In which parts of the Western Mediterranean did the blending of Romanesque and Islamic styles occur?
answers: text: those parts of the Western Mediterranean subject to Islamic control
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question: What is one cathedral in which the mixing of Romanesque, Gothic and Islamic styles can be seen?
answers: text: Cefalù Cathedrals
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question: What is another example of a cathedral in which the blending of Romanesque, Gothic and Islamic styles can be seen?
answers: text: Teruel Cathedral
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question: What could have eliminated Medieval Europe's embracing of the pointed arch?
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question: What event in the year 1290 could have had an effect on Medieval Europe's embracing of the pointed arch?
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question: Which parts of the Western Mediterranean did the blending of Asian and Islamic styles occur?
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question: What is the only cathedral in which the mixing of Romanesque, Gothic and Islamic styles can be seen?
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question: What is the worst example of a cathedral in which the blending of Romanesque, French and Islamic styles can be seen?
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question: What design element allowed the use of small clerestory doors?
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question: What is the only city with an accumulation of secular Gothic structures?
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question: What is the only country that contained considerable and prosperous towns during this time?
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context: Increasing military and cultural contacts with the Muslim world, including the Norman conquest of Islamic Sicily in 1090, the Crusades, beginning 1096, and the Islamic presence in Spain, may have influenced Medieval Europe's adoption of the pointed arch, although this hypothesis remains controversial. Certainly, in those parts of the Western Mediterranean subject to Islamic control or influence, rich regional variants arose, fusing Romanesque and later Gothic traditions with Islamic decorative forms, as seen, for example, in Monreale and Cefalù Cathedrals, the Alcázar of Seville, and Teruel Cathedral.

qas: question: The distinctive forms that describe Gothic architecture developed out of which style?
answers: text: Romanesque
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question: Barrel and groin vaults are examples of what kind of architecture?
answers: text: Romanesque architecture
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question: What type of vaults were used in the Abbey of Saint-Étienne and Abbaye aux Dames?
answers: text: ribbed vaults
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question: When was Durham Cathedral constructed?
answers: text: from 1128 to 1133
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question: What cathedral first made use of pointed arches in high vaults? 
answers: text: Durham Cathedral in England
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question: What style helped to destroy Gothic architecture?
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question: What type of vaults were lost in the Abbey of Saint-Étienne and Abbaye aux Dames?
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question: When was Durham Cathedral abandoned?
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question: What cathedral last made use of pointed arches in low vaults?
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question: What is the name of the 13th-century town hall constructed to host the offices of the republic of Siena?
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question: Why were many buildings covered with marbles?
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question: Besides ecclesiastical and civic architecture, what other style of architecture did influential figures of the 19th century prefer to use Victorian Gothic for?
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context: The characteristic forms that were to define Gothic architecture grew out of Romanesque architecture and developed at several different geographic locations, as the result of different influences and structural requirements. While barrel vaults and groin vaults are typical of Romanesque architecture, ribbed vaults were used in the naves of two Romanesque churches in Caen, Abbey of Saint-Étienne and Abbaye aux Dames in 1120. Another early example is the nave and apse area of the Cathedral of Cefalù in 1131. The ribbed vault over the north transept at Durham Cathedral in England, built from 1128 to 1133, is probably earlier still and was the first time pointed arches were used in a high vault.

qas: question: What is considered the first truly Gothic building?
answers: text: The Basilica of Saint Denis
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question: Which cathedral was first to be rebuilt in the new style from 1150 to 1231?
answers: text: Noyon Cathedral
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question: What is one of the features that have come to be considered as an important part of the Gothic style?
answers: text: ribbed vaulting
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question: What is considered the last true Gothic building?
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question: Which cathedral was first to be rebuilt in the new style from 1140 to 1241?
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question: What is one of the features that is no longer an important part of the Gothic style?
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question: When was the Noyon Cathedral abandoned?
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question: What shape does the east end of French chapels typically have?
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question: How many towers are typically found on the west front of French cathedrals?
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question: Who was the exterior architect of the Houses of Parliament?
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context: The Basilica of Saint Denis is generally cited as the first truly Gothic building, however the distinction is best reserved for the choir, of which the ambulatory remains intact. Noyon Cathedral, also in France, saw the earliest completion of a rebuilding of an entire cathedral in the new style from 1150 to 1231. While using all those features that came to be known as Gothic, including pointed arches, flying buttresses and ribbed vaulting, the builders continued to employ many of the features and much of the character of Romanesque architecture including round-headed arch throughout the building, varying the shape to pointed where it was functionally practical to do so.

qas: question: What is one cathedral in which simple cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
answers: text: Abbey Saint-Denis
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question: When was the construction of Wells Cathedral in England begun?
answers: text: in 1175
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question: Who completed the transepts and nave on Wells Cathedral in about 1230?
answers: text: Adam Locke
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question: Which Cathedral is considered the first thoroughly Gothic cathedral?
answers: text: Wells Cathedral
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question: What is another cathedral in which simple cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
answers: text: Notre Dame de Paris
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question: What is one cathedral in which complex cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
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question: When was the construction of Wells Cathedral in England halted?
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question: Who completed the transepts and nave on Wells Cathedral in about 1130?
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question: Which Cathedral is considered the only thoroughly Gothic cathedral?
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question: Which type of vault can be used for rectangular and trapezoidal shaped roofs?
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question: What style of architecture did Gothic architecture evolve from?
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question: What is one country in the geographic area that was affected by the development of the Gothic style of architecture?
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context: At the Abbey Saint-Denis, Noyon Cathedral, Notre Dame de Paris and at the eastern end of Canterbury Cathedral in England, simple cylindrical columns predominate over the Gothic forms of clustered columns and shafted piers. Wells Cathedral in England, commenced at the eastern end in 1175, was the first building in which the designer broke free from Romanesque forms. The architect entirely dispensed with the round arch in favour of the pointed arch and with cylindrical columns in favour of piers composed of clusters of shafts which lead into the mouldings of the arches. The transepts and nave were continued by Adam Locke in the same style and completed in about 1230. The character of the building is entirely Gothic. Wells Cathedral is thus considered the first truly Gothic cathedral.

qas: question: Who chose to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis in about 1137?
answers: text: Suger
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question: Which portion the cathedral was the reconstruction of the great Church of Saint-Denis begun?
answers: text: the West Front
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question: The facade of Saint Denis resembled what other well known structure?
answers: text: the Roman Arch of Constantine
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question: Why were three large portal used in the construction of the Roman Arch of Constantine?
answers: text: to ease the problem of congestion
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question: The facade of Saint Denis combines round arches with what other style arch?
answers: text: pointed arches of the Gothic style
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question: Who chose to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis in about 1237?
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question: Which portion of the cathedral was involved in the destruction of the great Church of Saint-Denis?
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question: What did the facade of Saint Denis resemble as a well known creature?
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question: Why were nine large portals used in the construction of the Roman Arch of Constantine?
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question: What does the facade of Saint Denis combine pyramids with what other style arch?
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question: Which cathedral demonstrates a drastic example of termination with small pinnacles?
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question: What style are all windows on secular Gothic structures?
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question: What shape does the east end of French chapels typically forbid?
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context: Suger, friend and confidant of the French Kings, Louis VI and Louis VII, decided in about 1137, to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis, attached to an abbey which was also a royal residence. He began with the West Front, reconstructing the original Carolingian façade with its single door. He designed the façade of Saint-Denis to be an echo of the Roman Arch of Constantine with its three-part division and three large portals to ease the problem of congestion. The rose window is the earliest-known example above the West portal in France. The façade combines both round arches and pointed arches of the Gothic style.

qas: question: When was the west front of Saint Denis completed?
answers: text: in 1140
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question: What portion of the reconstruction of Saint Denis was begun after the completion of the west front? 
answers: text: the eastern end
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question: What style of nave was left unaltered during this portion of the reconstruction of Saint Denis?
answers: text: the Carolingian nave
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question: What style of columns did Abbott Suger use when reconstructing Saint Denis?
answers: text: clustered columns
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question: What design element allowed the use of large clerestory windows?
answers: text: the flying buttresses
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question: When was the south front of Saint Denis removed?
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question: What style of columns did Abbott Suger use when destructing Saint Denis?
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question: What style of nave was fully altered during this portion of the reconstruction of Saint Denis?
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question: What design element allowed the use of small clerestory doors?
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question: What portion of the reconstruction of Saint Denis was delayed after the completion of the west front?
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question: Poland was affected by trade connections with what League?
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question: What is another example of architectural technology that is seen in Gothic construction?
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question: What is another cathedral in which simple cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
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context: At the completion of the west front in 1140, Abbot Suger moved on to the reconstruction of the eastern end, leaving the Carolingian nave in use. He designed a choir that would be suffused with light. To achieve his aims, his masons drew on the several new features which evolved or had been introduced to Romanesque architecture, the pointed arch, the ribbed vault, the ambulatory with radiating chapels, the clustered columns supporting ribs springing in different directions and the flying buttresses which enabled the insertion of large clerestory windows.

qas: question: What type of buildings most prominently display the design aspects of the Gothic architectural style?
answers: text: cathedrals and great churches
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question: Prior to the 20th century, a Gothic cathedral was considered to be what type of building in the town in which it was constructed?
answers: text: the landmark building
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question: What is another name for the pointed arch?
answers: text: the ogival
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question: What is an example of architectural technology that is seen in Gothic construction?
answers: text: the ribbed vault
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question: What is another example of architectural technology that is seen in Gothic construction?
answers: text: the buttress
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question: What type of buildings most prominently hide the design aspects of the Gothic architectural style?
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question: What is another name for the twisted arch?
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question: What is an example of impossible technology that is seen in Gothic construction?
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question: When was it typical that Gothic cathedrals were hidden?
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question: What is one type of Benedictine order that was rare in France?
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question: What is one country in the geographic area that was affected by the development of the Gothic style of architecture?
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question: What is one of the features that is no longer an important part of the Gothic style?
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context: While many secular buildings exist from the Late Middle Ages, it is in the buildings of cathedrals and great churches that Gothic architecture displays its pertinent structures and characteristics to the fullest advantage. A Gothic cathedral or abbey was, prior to the 20th century, generally the landmark building in its town, rising high above all the domestic structures and often surmounted by one or more towers and pinnacles and perhaps tall spires. These cathedrals were the skyscrapers of that day and would have been the largest buildings by far that Europeans would ever have seen. It is in the architecture of these Gothic churches that a unique combination of existing technologies established the emergence of a new building style. Those technologies were the ogival or pointed arch, the ribbed vault, and the buttress.

qas: question: In England, which arm would generally show two distinct sections, choir and presbytery?
answers: text: The eastern arm
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question: Who is a projecting Lady Chapel dedicated to?
answers: text: the Virgin Mary
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question: What shape does the eastern end often exhibit in France?
answers: text: polygonal
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question: What is the ring of chapels found in the eastern end of French chapels known as?
answers: text: chevet
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question: In Italy, the eastern projection beyond the transept often contains what?
answers: text: the sanctuary
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question: Which arm in England would generally show no distinct sections?
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question: Who was a projecting Lady Chapel meant to harm?
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question: What shape does the eastern end rarely exhibit in France?
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question: What is the sphere of chapels found in the eastern end of French chapels known as?
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question: In what year was a Gothic hammerbeam roof installed on the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence?
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question: What is one country in the geographic area that was affected by the development of the Gothic style of architecture?
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question: What cathedral first made use of pointed arches in high vaults? 
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context: The eastern arm shows considerable diversity. In England it is generally long and may have two distinct sections, both choir and presbytery. It is often square ended or has a projecting Lady Chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary. In France the eastern end is often polygonal and surrounded by a walkway called an ambulatory and sometimes a ring of chapels called a "chevet". While German churches are often similar to those of France, in Italy, the eastern projection beyond the transept is usually just a shallow apsidal chapel containing the sanctuary, as at Florence Cathedral.

qas: question: The use of the pointed arch for bringing transverse vaults to the same height diagonal ones, is in disagreement with what theory?
answers: text: the diffusionist theory
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question: At which cathedral is the pointed arch used to match the heights of transverse and diagonal vaults?
answers: text: Durham Cathedral
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question: In what type of decorative blind arcading are pointed arches common?
answers: text: Romanesque
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question: When semicircular arches overlap each other, what type of design is accidentally created?
answers: text: points
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question: Which cathedral is the twisted arch used to match the heights of transverse and diagonal vaults?
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question: What type of decorative blind are curved arches common?
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question: When triangular arches overlap each other, what type of design is accidentally created?
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question: What theory was not supported by anyone?
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question: What shape does the east end of French chapels typically have?
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question: How long had Italy stopped building in a Classical architecture style at the time of Vasari?
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question: What is the name of the secular building in Spain which was constructed for the purpose of silk exchange?
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context: Contrary to the diffusionist theory, it appears that there was simultaneously a structural evolution towards the pointed arch, for the purpose of vaulting spaces of irregular plan, or to bring transverse vaults to the same height as diagonal vaults. This latter occurs at Durham Cathedral in the nave aisles in 1093. Pointed arches also occur extensively in Romanesque decorative blind arcading, where semi-circular arches overlap each other in a simple decorative pattern, and the points are accidental to the design.

qas: question: Which type of vault can be used for rectangular and trapezoidal shaped roofs?
answers: text: The Gothic vault
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question: What structural benefit is offered by the Gothic vault?
answers: text: channels the weight onto the bearing piers or columns at a steep angle
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question: What can architects raise much higher using the Gothic versus the Romanesque variety?
answers: text: vaults
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question: What type of visual character is achieved by using the pointed arch?
answers: text: more vertical visual character
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question: Which type of vault can be used for circular and square shaped roofs?
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question: What structural danger is offered by the Gothic vault?
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question: What can architects raise much lower using the Gothic versus the Romanesque variety?
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question: What type of visual character is forgotten by using the pointed arch?
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question: Who encouraged cathedral architects to allow as much light as possible into the building?
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question: When was the Escuelas mayores building of the University of Salamanca in Spain destroyed?
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question: What shape does the east end of French chapels typically have?
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context: The Gothic vault, unlike the semi-circular vault of Roman and Romanesque buildings, can be used to roof rectangular and irregularly shaped plans such as trapezoids. The other structural advantage is that the pointed arch channels the weight onto the bearing piers or columns at a steep angle. This enabled architects to raise vaults much higher than was possible in Romanesque architecture. While, structurally, use of the pointed arch gave a greater flexibility to architectural form, it also gave Gothic architecture a very different and more vertical visual character than Romanesque.

qas: question: What is one feature of both large and small Gothic churches?
answers: text: towers
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question: What is another feature of both large and small Gothic churches?
answers: text: spires
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question: How many towers are typical on the front of Gothic churches in France and Spain?
answers: text: two towers
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question: In what country is the tower often found detached from the main building?
answers: text: Italy
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question: How many towers are found at the Salisbury Chapel?
answers: text: just one tower
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question: What is one feature of only small Gothic churches?
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question: How many riddles are typical on the front of Gothic churches in France and Spain?
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question: What country is the tower often vanishing from the main building?
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question: How many towers fell at the Salisbury Chapel?
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question: What church was widespread across Europe at this time?
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question: Which type of vault can be used for rectangular and trapezoidal shaped roofs?
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question: What size are the arcades of Gothic malls of the Iberian Peninsula?
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context: Externally, towers and spires are characteristic of Gothic churches both great and small, the number and positioning being one of the greatest variables in Gothic architecture. In Italy, the tower, if present, is almost always detached from the building, as at Florence Cathedral, and is often from an earlier structure. In France and Spain, two towers on the front is the norm. In England, Germany and Scandinavia this is often the arrangement, but an English cathedral may also be surmounted by an enormous tower at the crossing. Smaller churches usually have just one tower, but this may also be the case at larger buildings, such as Salisbury Cathedral or Ulm Minster, which has the tallest spire in the world, slightly exceeding that of Lincoln Cathedral, the tallest which was actually completed during the medieval period, at 160 metres (520 ft).

qas: question: What enhances the vertical look of the exterior of Gothic construction? 
answers: text: the towers and spires
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question: What is one design element of Gothic construction that is often terminated by small pinnacles?
answers: text: The roofline
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question: What is another design element of Gothic construction that is often terminated by small pinnacles?
answers: text: gable ends
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question: Which cathedral demonstrates a drastic example of termination with small pinnacles?
answers: text: Milan Cathedral
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question: What other part of Gothic buildings are often found terminated with small pinnacles?
answers: text: buttresses
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question: What hinders the vertical look of the exterior of Gothic construction?
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question: What is one design element of Gothic construction that is always terminated by small pinnacles?
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question: Which cathedral demonstrates an impossible structure of small pinnacles?
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question: What part of Gothic buildings are often found terminated with enormous pinnacles?
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question: What is the name of the secular building at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland?
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question: When was the Escuelas mayores building of the University of Salamanca in Spain destroyed?
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question: Where are blackened windows used on English cathedrals?
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context: On the exterior, the verticality is emphasised in a major way by the towers and spires and in a lesser way by strongly projecting vertical buttresses, by narrow half-columns called attached shafts which often pass through several storeys of the building, by long narrow windows, vertical mouldings around doors and figurative sculpture which emphasises the vertical and is often attenuated. The roofline, gable ends, buttresses and other parts of the building are often terminated by small pinnacles, Milan Cathedral being an extreme example in the use of this form of decoration.

qas: question: What is often found sweeping unbroken from floor to ceiling on the interior of Gothic buildings?
answers: text: attached shafts
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question: Where are the verticals found repeated in the interior of Gothic buildings?
answers: text: the treatment of the windows and wall surfaces
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question: What sort of feature is created by the use of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery?
answers: text: a strongly unifying feature
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question: What does the use of vertical elements help to counteract?
answers: text: horizontal divisions of the interior structure
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question: What is often found completely broken from floor to ceiling on the interior of Gothic buildings?
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question: Where are the verticals never repeated in the interior of Gothic buildings?
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question: What sort of feature is ruined by the use of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery?
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question: What does the use of vertical elements harm the most?
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question: What portion of Gothic buildings are usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture?
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question: What is the name of the royal residence built for the kings of France in Paris?
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question: What is the distinctive design element of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian Peninsula? 
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context: On the interior of the building attached shafts often sweep unbroken from floor to ceiling and meet the ribs of the vault, like a tall tree spreading into branches. The verticals are generally repeated in the treatment of the windows and wall surfaces. In many Gothic churches, particularly in France, and in the Perpendicular period of English Gothic architecture, the treatment of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery creates a strongly unifying feature that counteracts the horizontal divisions of the interior structure.

qas: question: What sort of light has always been characteristic of Gothic cathedrals?
answers: text: Expansive interior light
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question: Whose writings led to the clerical belief in the divinity of light?
answers: text: Pseudo-Dionysius
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question: What book became popular with monks in France and had an effect on how light was used in cathedrals?
answers: text: The Celestial Hierarchy
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question: Who encouraged cathedral architects to allow as much light as possible into the building?
answers: text: the Abbot Suger
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question: Who held the belief that all light, including light reflected from walls and surfaces was divine?
answers: text: Pseudo-Dionysius
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question: What sort of ultraviolet light has always been characteristic of Gothic cathedrals?
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question: Whose writings led to the clerical belief in the divinity of darkness?
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question: What book became unpopular with monks in France and had an effect on how light was used in cathedrals?
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question: Who encouraged cathedral architects to allow as little light as possible into the building?
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question: Who held the belief that all light, including light reflected from walls and surfaces was fake?
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question: What movement was responsible for the philosophy which led to the end of Anglo Catholic ideas?
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question: What is the name of the building at University of Prague in Bohemia?
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question: What is one time period in which Gothic architecture flourished?
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context: Expansive interior light has been a feature of Gothic cathedrals since the first structure was opened. The metaphysics of light in the Middle Ages led to clerical belief in its divinity and the importance of its display in holy settings. Much of this belief was based on the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, a sixth-century mystic whose book, The Celestial Hierarchy, was popular among monks in France. Pseudo-Dionysius held that all light, even light reflected from metals or streamed through windows, was divine. To promote such faith, the abbot in charge of the Saint-Denis church on the north edge of Paris, the Abbot Suger, encouraged architects remodeling the building to make the interior as bright as possible.

qas: question: What size of window is found above the main portal at York Minster?
answers: text: a large window
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question: What type of window is often found above the main portal at cathedrals in France such as the Reims Cathedral?
answers: text: a rose window
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question: Where are rose windows never found in the facades of cathedrals?
answers: text: any English Cathedrals
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question: What portion of Gothic buildings are usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture?
answers: text: The gable
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question: Which Italian cathedral displays polychrome marble and mosaic on the gable?
answers: text: Orvieto Cathedral
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question: What size of hole is found above the main portal at York Minster?
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question: What type of window is often found above the main portal at cathedrals in Greece such as the Reims Cathedral?
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question: Where are clear windows never found in the facades of cathedrals?
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question: What portion of Egyptian buildings are usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture?
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question: Which Italian cathedral displays polychrome marble and mosaic on the floor?
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question: What style are most windows on secular Gothic structures?
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question: Where do the emotions which traits of the Gothic style represent, originate from? 
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question: What design style does Romanesque architecture in Germany, Poland, and Austria normally follow?
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context: Above the main portal there is generally a large window, like that at York Minster, or a group of windows such as those at Ripon Cathedral. In France there is generally a rose window like that at Reims Cathedral. Rose windows are also often found in the façades of churches of Spain and Italy, but are rarer elsewhere and are not found on the façades of any English Cathedrals. The gable is usually richly decorated with arcading or sculpture or, in the case of Italy, may be decorated with the rest of the façade, with polychrome marble and mosaic, as at Orvieto Cathedral.

qas: question: What is the distinguiushing visual design feature of French cathedrals?
answers: text: their impression of verticality
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question: How many portals are typically found on the west front of French cathedrals?
answers: text: three portals
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question: How many towers are typically found on the west front of French cathedrals?
answers: text: two large towers
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question: What shape does the east end of French chapels typically have?
answers: text: The east end is polygonal
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question: What do many major churches in Southern France often lack?
answers: text: transepts
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question: What is the only visual design feature of French cathedrals?
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question: How many wormholes are typically found on the west front of French cathedrals?
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question: What do many major churches in Southern France often require?
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question: What shape does the east end of French chapels typically forbid?
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question: What is one of the features that have come to be considered as an important part of the Gothic style?
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question: What is the distinctive design element of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian continent?
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question: What is another example of architectural technology that is seen in Gothic construction?
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context: The distinctive characteristic of French cathedrals, and those in Germany and Belgium that were strongly influenced by them, is their height and their impression of verticality. Each French cathedral tends to be stylistically unified in appearance when compared with an English cathedral where there is great diversity in almost every building. They are compact, with slight or no projection of the transepts and subsidiary chapels. The west fronts are highly consistent, having three portals surmounted by a rose window, and two large towers. Sometimes there are additional towers on the transept ends. The east end is polygonal with ambulatory and sometimes a chevette of radiating chapels. In the south of France, many of the major churches are without transepts and some are without aisles.

qas: question: What is the unique design feature of English cathedrals?
answers: text: their extreme length
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question: What type of transepts do English cathedrals often feature? 
answers: text: double transepts
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question: What size of window is typically featured on the west end of English cathedrals?
answers: text: very large
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question: Where are rose windows used on English cathedrals?
answers: text: the transept gables
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question: On English cathedrals, where is a tower almost always found?
answers: text: at the crossing
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question: What is the worst design feature of English cathedrals?
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question: What type of transepts do English cathedrals often lack?
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question: What size of cat is typically featured on the west end of English cathedrals?
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question: Where are blackened windows used on English cathedrals?
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question: Where is a tower almost never found on Greek cathedrals?
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question: During which period did regional differences in Romanesque architecture become even more pronounced?
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question: When was the construction of Wells Cathedral in England begun?
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question: What style of columns did Abbott Suger use when destructing Saint Denis?
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context: The distinctive characteristic of English cathedrals is their extreme length, and their internal emphasis upon the horizontal, which may be emphasised visually as much or more than the vertical lines. Each English cathedral (with the exception of Salisbury) has an extraordinary degree of stylistic diversity, when compared with most French, German and Italian cathedrals. It is not unusual for every part of the building to have been built in a different century and in a different style, with no attempt at creating a stylistic unity. Unlike French cathedrals, English cathedrals sprawl across their sites, with double transepts projecting strongly and Lady Chapels tacked on at a later date, such as at Westminster Abbey. In the west front, the doors are not as significant as in France, the usual congregational entrance being through a side porch. The West window is very large and never a rose, which are reserved for the transept gables. The west front may have two towers like a French Cathedral, or none. There is nearly always a tower at the crossing and it may be very large and surmounted by a spire. The distinctive English east end is square, but it may take a completely different form. Both internally and externally, the stonework is often richly decorated with carvings, particularly the capitals.

qas: question: In Germany, Poland and Austria Romanesque architecture is defined by its massive size and what other design element?
answers: text: modular nature
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question: What design style does Romanesque architecture in Germany, Poland, and Austria normally follow?
answers: text: the French formula
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question: What does the eastern end of German Romanesque cathedrals typically emulate?
answers: text: follows the French form
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question: What is the distinguishing design element in German Gothic cathedrals?
answers: text: their breadth and openness
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question: What are hall churches in German cathedrals known as?
answers: text: Hallenkirchen
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question: What design style does Romanesque architecture in Germany, Poland, and Australia rarely follow?
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question: What does the eastern end of German Romanesque cathedrals typically avoid?
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question: What is the only design element in German Gothic cathedrals?
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question: What are hall churches in German cathedrals no longer known as?
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question: What is the only city with an accumulation of secular Gothic structures?
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question: What size are the arcades of Gothic malls of the Iberian Peninsula?
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question: What style are all windows on secular Gothic structures?
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context: Romanesque architecture in Germany, Poland, the Czech Lands and Austria is characterised by its massive and modular nature. This is expressed in the Gothic architecture of Central Europe in the huge size of the towers and spires, often projected, but not always completed. The west front generally follows the French formula, but the towers are very much taller and, if complete, are surmounted by enormous openwork spires that are a regional feature. Because of the size of the towers, the section of the façade between them may appear narrow and compressed. The eastern end follows the French form. The distinctive character of the interior of German Gothic cathedrals is their breadth and openness. This is the case even when, as at Cologne, they have been modelled upon a French cathedral. German cathedrals, like the French, tend not to have strongly projecting transepts. There are also many hall churches (Hallenkirchen) without clerestory windows.

qas: question: What is the distinctive design element of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian Peninsula? 
answers: text: their spatial complexity
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question: What size are the arcades of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian Peninsula?
answers: text: very tall arcades
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question: What type of architecture is a prominent influence on the design and form of Gothic cathedrals from the Iberian Peninsula? 
answers: text: Islamic architecture
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question: What type of West front does the Leon Cathedral resemble?
answers: text: a French west front
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question: What style are the spires at Burgos Cathedral?
answers: text: German style
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question: What is the distinctive design element of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian continent?
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question: What size are the arcades of Gothic malls of the Iberian Peninsula?
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question: What type of West front does the Leon Cathedral resent?
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question: What style are the spirals at Burgos Cathedral?
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question: What type of architecture lost influence on the design and form of Gothic cathedrals from the Iberian Peninsula?
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question: What church was widespread across Europe at this time?
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question: What is the name of the building at University of Prague in Bohemia?
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question: What is one cathedral in which complex cylindrical columns stand out more than the Gothic features?
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context: The distinctive characteristic of Gothic cathedrals of the Iberian Peninsula is their spatial complexity, with many areas of different shapes leading from each other. They are comparatively wide, and often have very tall arcades surmounted by low clerestories, giving a similar spacious appearance to the 'Hallenkirche of Germany, as at the Church of the Batalha Monastery in Portugal. Many of the cathedrals are completely surrounded by chapels. Like English cathedrals, each is often stylistically diverse. This expresses itself both in the addition of chapels and in the application of decorative details drawn from different sources. Among the influences on both decoration and form are Islamic architecture and, towards the end of the period, Renaissance details combined with the Gothic in a distinctive manner. The West front, as at Leon Cathedral, typically resembles a French west front, but wider in proportion to height and often with greater diversity of detail and a combination of intricate ornament with broad plain surfaces. At Burgos Cathedral there are spires of German style. The roofline often has pierced parapets with comparatively few pinnacles. There are often towers and domes of a great variety of shapes and structural invention rising above the roof.

qas: question: What is the unique characteristic of Italian Gothic design?
answers: text: the use of polychrome decoration
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question: What color are the columns of Italian Gothic cathedrals often painted?
answers: text: the columns may be painted red
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question: What type of arches do they love to use in Venice?
answers: text: they loved flamboyant arches
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question: Instead of rose windows, what type of windows do Italian cathedral facades usually feature?
answers: text: occular or wheel windows
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question: What is the preferred narrative medium for the interior of Italian cathedrals?
answers: text: the fresco
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question: What is the worst characteristic of Italian Gothic design?
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question: What color are the columns of Italian Gothic cathedrals always painted?
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question: What type of arches do they never use in Venice?
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question: What type of windows do Italian cathedral facades usually forbid?
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question: What is the preferred narrative medium for the interior of Italian cinemas?
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question: Who were bishops killed by?
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question: When was neo-Gothic forgotten by influential figures?
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question: What type of architecture lost influence on the design and form of Gothic cathedrals from the Iberian Peninsula?
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context: The distinctive characteristic of Italian Gothic is the use of polychrome decoration, both externally as marble veneer on the brick façade and also internally where the arches are often made of alternating black and white segments, and where the columns may be painted red, the walls decorated with frescoes and the apse with mosaic. The plan is usually regular and symmetrical, Italian cathedrals have few and widely spaced columns. The proportions are generally mathematically equilibrated, based on the square and the concept of "armonìa", and except in Venice where they loved flamboyant arches, the arches are almost always equilateral. Colours and moldings define the architectural units rather than blending them. Italian cathedral façades are often polychrome and may include mosaics in the lunettes over the doors. The façades have projecting open porches and occular or wheel windows rather than roses, and do not usually have a tower. The crossing is usually surmounted by a dome. There is often a free-standing tower and baptistry. The eastern end usually has an apse of comparatively low projection. The windows are not as large as in northern Europe and, although stained glass windows are often found, the favourite narrative medium for the interior is the fresco.

qas: question: Who was the Royal palace of Olite built for?
answers: text: the kings of Navarre
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question: Who was the Malbork Castle built for?
answers: text: the master of the Teutonic order
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question: What type of Gothic architecture is the Malbork Castle an example of?
answers: text: Brick Gothic architecture
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question: What is the name of the royal residence built for the kings of France in Paris?
answers: text: the famous Conciergerie
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question: When was the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona constructed?
answers: text: built in the 15th century
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question: Who was the Royal palace of Olite pillaged for?
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question: Who was the Malbork Castle burned for?
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question: What type of Gothic architecture is the Malbork Castle a poor example of?
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question: When was the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona deconstructed?
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question: What is the name of the special residence built for the citizens of France in Paris?
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question: How many towers are typically found on the west front of French cathedrals?
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question: Why are larger cathedrals and churches associated with the Gothic style?
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question: What is considered the last true Gothic building?
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context: The Palais des Papes in Avignon is the best complete large royal palace, alongside the Royal palace of Olite, built during the 13th and 14th centuries for the kings of Navarre. The Malbork Castle built for the master of the Teutonic order is an example of Brick Gothic architecture. Partial survivals of former royal residences include the Doge's Palace of Venice, the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona, built in the 15th century for the kings of Aragon, or the famous Conciergerie, former palace of the kings of France, in Paris.

qas: question: What is an example of secular Northern Brick Gothic architecture from the 14th century?
answers: text: Stralsund town halls
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question: When was Brussels Town Hall built?
answers: text: built during the 15th century
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question: What is the name of the secular building in Spain which was constructed for the purpose of silk exchange?
answers: text: the Llotja de la Seda of Valencia
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question: What is the name of the 13th-century town hall constructed to host the offices of the republic of Siena?
answers: text: the Palazzo Pubblico
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question: Impressive public secular architecture can also be found in what other Italian city?
answers: text: Florence
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question: What is an example of secular Northern Brick Gothic architecture from the 12th century?
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question: When was Brussels Town Hall hidden?
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question: What is the name of the secular building in space which was constructed for the purpose of silk exchange?
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question: What is the name of the 18th-century town hall constructed to host the offices of the republic of Siena?
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question: What is the only Italian city with public secular architecture?
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question: What is Romanesque architecture known as in England?
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question: What are the emotions which traits of the Gothic style diminish?
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question: Which Italian cathedral displays polychrome marble and mosaic on the gable?
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context: Secular Gothic architecture can also be found in a number of public buildings such as town halls, universities, markets or hospitals. The Gdańsk, Wrocław and Stralsund town halls are remarkable examples of northern Brick Gothic built in the late 14th centuries. The Belfry of Bruges or Brussels Town Hall, built during the 15th century, are associated to the increasing wealth and power of the bourgeoisie in the late Middle Ages; by the 15th century, the traders of the trade cities of Burgundy had acquired such wealth and influence that they could afford to express their power by funding lavishly decorated buildings of vast proportions. This kind of expressions of secular and economic power are also found in other late mediaeval commercial cities, including the Llotja de la Seda of Valencia, Spain, a purpose built silk exchange dating from the 15th century, in the partial remains of Westminster Hall in the Houses of Parliament in London, or the Palazzo Pubblico in Siena, Italy, a 13th-century town hall built to host the offices of the then prosperous republic of Siena. Other Italian cities such as Florence (Palazzo Vecchio), Mantua or Venice also host remarkable examples of secular public architecture.

qas: question: In what era had university towns grown in wealth and importance?
answers: text: the late Middle Ages
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question: What is the name of the university building in Bologna, built in the 14th and 15th centuries?
answers: text: the Collegio di Spagna
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question: What is the name of the building at University of Prague in Bohemia?
answers: text: the Collegium Carolinum
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question: What is the name of the secular building at the University of Salamanca in Spain? 
answers: text: the Escuelas mayores
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question: What is the name of the secular building at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland?
answers: text: the Collegium Maius
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question: What era had university towns lost wealth and importance?
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question: What is the name of the university building in Bologna, built in the 14th and 17th centuries?
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question: What is the name of the building at University of Prague in Bahamas?
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question: When was the Escuelas mayores building of the University of Salamanca in Spain destroyed?
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question: What is no longer the name of the building at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland?
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question: Who avoided Gothic details in construction of Tom Tower, Oxford?
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question: What year was the High Victorian Gothic period in Africa?
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question: With what type of facade were buildings left with if they were to never be completed at a later time?
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context: By the late Middle Ages university towns had grown in wealth and importance as well, and this was reflected in the buildings of some of Europe's ancient universities. Particularly remarkable examples still standing nowadays include the Collegio di Spagna in the University of Bologna, built during the 14th and 15th centuries; the Collegium Carolinum of the University of Prague in Bohemia; the Escuelas mayores of the University of Salamanca in Spain; the chapel of King's College, Cambridge; or the Collegium Maius of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland.

qas: question: What is one city with an accumulation of secular Gothic structures? 
answers: text: Bruges
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question: What is another city with an accumulation of secular Gothic structures? 
answers: text: Siena
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question: What style are most windows on secular Gothic structures?
answers: text: flat-topped with mullions
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question: Where are pointed arches and vaulted ceilings found on most secular Gothic structures?
answers: text: a few focal points
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question: What is the name of the surviving monastic building in England? 
answers: text: Mont Saint-Michel
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question: What is the only city with an accumulation of secular Gothic structures?
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question: What style are all windows on secular Gothic structures?
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question: Where are pointed arches and vaulted ceilings concealed on most secular Gothic structures?
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question: What is the name of the surviving monastic building in Egypt?
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question: Who was a projecting Lady Chapel meant to harm?
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question: What part of Gothic buildings are often found terminated with enormous pinnacles?
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question: What could have affected Medieval Europe's embracing of the pointed arch?
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context: Other cities with a concentration of secular Gothic include Bruges and Siena. Most surviving small secular buildings are relatively plain and straightforward; most windows are flat-topped with mullions, with pointed arches and vaulted ceilings often only found at a few focal points. The country-houses of the nobility were slow to abandon the appearance of being a castle, even in parts of Europe, like England, where defence had ceased to be a real concern. The living and working parts of many monastic buildings survive, for example at Mont Saint-Michel.

qas: question: What is the name of the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence?
answers: text: Lambeth Palace
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question: In what year was a Gothic hammerbeam roof installed on the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence?
answers: text: In 1663
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question: In what century were distinct Gothic details used on new construction at Oxford and Cambridge?
answers: text: the late 17th century
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question: Who used Gothic details in construction of Tom Tower, Oxford?
answers: text: Christopher Wren
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question: What is the location of the Archbishop of Canterbury's dentist?
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question: What year was a Gothic hammerbeam roof stolen on the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence?
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question: What century were vague Gothic details used on new construction at Oxford and Yale?
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question: Who avoided Gothic details in construction of Tom Tower, Oxford?
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question: What is one region with which the Gothic style is distinctly forbidden?
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question: Which cathedral was first to be rebuilt in the new style from 1140 to 1241?
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question: Who was a projecting Lady Chapel meant to harm?
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context: In 1663 at the Archbishop of Canterbury's residence, Lambeth Palace, a Gothic hammerbeam roof was built to replace that destroyed when the building was sacked during the English Civil War. Also in the late 17th century, some discrete Gothic details appeared on new construction at Oxford University and Cambridge University, notably on Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford, by Christopher Wren. It is not easy to decide whether these instances were Gothic survival or early appearances of Gothic revival.

qas: question: When was neo-Gothic popularized by influential figures?
answers: text: during the second quarter of the 19th century
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question: In Britain after 1837, what was the Gothic revival known as?
answers: text: Victorian Gothic
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question: During what years was the High Victorian Gothic period in Britain?
answers: text: 1855–1885
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question: What movement was responsible for the philosophy which led to the revival of Anglo Catholic ideas? 
answers: text: the Oxford Movement
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question: Besides ecclesiastical and civic architecture, what other style of architecture did influential figures of the 19th century prefer to use Victorian Gothic for?
answers: text: institutional architecture
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question: When was neo-Gothic forgotten by influential figures?
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question: What was the Gothic death known as in Britain after 1827?
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question: What year was the High Victorian Gothic period in Africa?
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question: What movement was responsible for the philosophy which led to the end of Anglo Catholic ideas?
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question: What other style of architecture did influential figures of the 14th century prefer to use Victorian Gothic for?
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question: What type of visual character is forgotten by using the pointed arch?
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question: Who was a projecting Lady Chapel meant to harm?
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question: During which period did regional differences in Romanesque architecture become even more pronounced?
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context: In England, partly in response to a philosophy propounded by the Oxford Movement and others associated with the emerging revival of 'high church' or Anglo-Catholic ideas during the second quarter of the 19th century, neo-Gothic began to become promoted by influential establishment figures as the preferred style for ecclesiastical, civic and institutional architecture. The appeal of this Gothic revival (which after 1837, in Britain, is sometimes termed Victorian Gothic), gradually widened to encompass "low church" as well as "high church" clients. This period of more universal appeal, spanning 1855–1885, is known in Britain as High Victorian Gothic.

qas: question: Who was the exterior architect of the Houses of Parliament?
answers: text: Sir Charles Barry
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question: Who was the interior architect of the Houses of Parliament?
answers: text: Augustus Welby Pugin
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question: What style of architecture does the Houses of Parliament exemplify?
answers: text: the Gothic revival style
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question: Who designed the Albert Memorial in London?
answers: text: George Gilbert Scott
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question: Who designed the chapel at Keble College, Oxford?
answers: text: William Butterfield
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question: Who was the failed architect of the Houses of Parliament?
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question: Who was the cook of the Houses of Parliament?
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question: What style of architecture does the Houses of Parliament mock?
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question: Who designed the Albert Memorial in Germany?
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question: Who destroyed the chapel at Keble College, Oxford?
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question: Which type of architecture first used the pointed arch during the fifth century?
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question: What sort of feature is ruined by the use of vertical elements in gallery and window tracery?
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question: What is the only style of building that still remains from this period today?
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context: The Houses of Parliament in London by Sir Charles Barry with interiors by a major exponent of the early Gothic Revival, Augustus Welby Pugin, is an example of the Gothic revival style from its earlier period in the second quarter of the 19th century. Examples from the High Victorian Gothic period include George Gilbert Scott's design for the Albert Memorial in London, and William Butterfield's chapel at Keble College, Oxford. From the second half of the 19th century onwards it became more common in Britain for neo-Gothic to be used in the design of non-ecclesiastical and non-governmental buildings types. Gothic details even began to appear in working-class housing schemes subsidised by philanthropy, though given the expense, less frequently than in the design of upper and middle-class housing.

qas: question: Who was the main figure of the Gothic Revival in France?
answers: text: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
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question: What famous French cathedral was restored and reconstructed by Viollet-le-Duc?
answers: text: the Abbey of Saint-Denis
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question: What modern building material did Viollet-le-Duc teach reform Gothic designers to work with?
answers: text: cast iron
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question: In what fortified city in Southern France did Viollet-le-Duc recreate historical Gothic constructions?
answers: text: Carcassonne
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question: What other famous French cathedral did Viollet-le-Duc work on?
answers: text: Notre Dame de Paris
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question: Who was the villain of the Gothic Revival in France?
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question: What famous French cathedral was ruined by Viollet-le-Duc?
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question: What modern building material did Viollet-le-Duc teach reform Gothic designers to avoid?
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question: What other famous American cathedral did Viollet-le-Duc work on?
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question: What empty city in Northern France did Viollet-le-Duc recreate historical Gothic constructions?
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question: Who were bishops killed by?
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question: Why were three large portal used in the construction of the Roman Arch of Constantine?
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question: Which Cathedral is considered the only thoroughly Gothic cathedral?
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context: In France, simultaneously, the towering figure of the Gothic Revival was Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, who outdid historical Gothic constructions to create a Gothic as it ought to have been, notably at the fortified city of Carcassonne in the south of France and in some richly fortified keeps for industrial magnates. Viollet-le-Duc compiled and coordinated an Encyclopédie médiévale that was a rich repertory his contemporaries mined for architectural details. He effected vigorous restoration of crumbling detail of French cathedrals, including the Abbey of Saint-Denis and famously at Notre Dame de Paris, where many of whose most "Gothic" gargoyles are Viollet-le-Duc's. He taught a generation of reform-Gothic designers and showed how to apply Gothic style to modern structural materials, especially cast iron.