Fine Art Friday - Famous Cathedrals and Different Architectural Styles

St. Peter's Basilica Rose Window
St. Peter's Basilica - Vatican, Italian Renaissance
Toledo Cathedral Rose Window
Toledo Cathedral - Spain, Gothic
Rheims Cathedral Rose Window
Rheims Cathedral - France, Gothic
Orvieto Cathedral Rose Window
Orvieto Cathedral - Italy, Gothic
Notre Dame Rose Window
Notre Dame Cathedral - Paris, Gothic
Chartres Cathedral Rose Window
Chartres Cathedral - Paris, Gothic Style
Basilica de San Marco Rose Window
Basilica de San Marco - Venice, Byzantine Style

Rose window is often used as a generic term applied to a circular window, but is especially used for those found in churches of the Gothic architectural style and being divided into segments by stone mullions and tracery. The name “rose window” was not used before the 17th century and in all likelihood stems from the Old French word roué, meaning wheel, not from the English flower name, rose.

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Gothic architecture is a style of architecture which flourished during the high and late medieval period. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture.

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Byzantine architecture is the architecture of the Byzantine Empire.

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Renaissance architecture is the architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 17th centuries in different regions of Europe, in which there was a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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Sources of some pictures Flickr