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‘The main subsequent development of terminology came with the distinction made in the 19th century between the high- and late-medieval Gothic styles of art and architecture and the earlier Romanesque style. The dividing line between the two, largely under the influence of architectural historians, was drawn through the period when pointed-arch was superseding the use of round arches, c[irca]1150[ce]. At the other end of the time-scale, the Gothic period was held to have come to an end with the introduction of the Classical orders into architecture, c[irca]1400[ce] in Italy and c[irca]1500[ce] north of the Alps. In practice, this isolation of the period c[irca]1150-c[irca]1400 or c[irca]1500[ce]* is also useful for the figurative arts. During the period c[irca]1150-1250[ce],** European painting and sculpture underwent one of its most fundamental periods of transition in which a style still heavily influenced by the pattern and symbolism of Byzantine art was replaced by an interest in realism, naturalism and humanitarian feeling.*** On the other hand, from c[irca]1400[ce] onwards, European art became increasingly involved in the academic, antiquarian and often frankly revivalist aspects of the Italian Renaissance.’

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*{2048G~1536[ce]}

**{2048J~1280[ce]}

***{cf [[Redbook8:282][19910221:1142j]{Byzantine Art [continued (7):] Late Byzantine Art}[21st February 1991]] 282? [presumably 2^nd para]}

**** – E[ncylopaedia of] V[isual] A[rt] 4:586

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