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Gothic architecture was essentially made up of an assembly of parts worked out for each building individually. It was an architecture adaptable to any situation, but it was not an architecture determined by universal, formal norms. To the Italians of the fifteenth century, Gothic architecture, with its roots in northern European sources, evoked an uncivilized, brutish period that they began to call the dark age that separated the glories of ancient Greece and Rome from what they saw as their own enlightened time. Emboldened by their flourishing urban (and urbane) culture, they set out to match the intellectual and artistic achievements of the ancients.
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