page_title: International Gothic
section_title: Survey
hierarchical_section_title: International Gothic / Survey
caption_attribution_description: Wenzelsbibel (130r); Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Codex Vindobonensis 2759-2764
context_page_description: International Gothic is a period of Gothic art which began in Burgundy, France, and northern Italy in the late 14th and early 15th century. It then spread very widely across Western Europe, hence the name for the period, which was introduced by the French art historian Louis Courajod at the end of the 19th century.
  Artists and portable works, such as illuminated manuscripts, travelled widely around the continent, leading to a common aesthetic among the royalty and higher nobility and considerably reducing the variation in national styles among works produced for the courtly elites. The main influences were northern France, the Netherlands, the Duchy of Burgundy, the Imperial court in Prague, and Italy. Royal marriages such as that between Richard II of England and Anne of Bohemia helped to spread the style.
  It was initially a style of courtly sophistication, but somewhat more robust versions spread to art commissioned by the emerging mercantile classes and the smaller nobility.
caption: A page from the luxury illuminated manuscript Wenceslas Bible, a German translation of the 1390s.[9]
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