<P> The term `` Gothic architecture '' originated as a pejorative description . Giorgio Vasari used the term `` barbarous German style '' in his 1550 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 held responsible for destroying the ancient buildings after they conquered Rome , and erecting new ones in this style . Vasari was not alone among 15th and 16th Italian writers , as Filarete and Giannozzo Manetti had also written scathing criticisms of the Gothic style , calling it a `` barbaric prelude to the Renaissance . '' Vasari and company were writing at a time when many aspects and vocabulary pertaining to Classical architecture had been reasserted with the Renaissance in the late 15th and 16th centuries , and they had the perspective that the `` maniera tedesca '' or `` maniera dei Goti '' was the antithesis of this resurgent style leading to the continuation of this negative connotation in the 17th century . François Rabelais , also of the 16th century , imagines an inscription over the door of his utopian Abbey of Thélème , `` Here enter no hypocrites , bigots ... '' slipping in a slighting reference to `` Gotz '' and `` Ostrogotz . '' Molière also made this note of the Gothic style in the 1669 poem La Gloire : </P>
<P> The term `` Gothic architecture '' originated as a pejorative description . Giorgio Vasari used the term `` barbarous German style '' in his 1550 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 held responsible for destroying the ancient buildings after they conquered Rome , and erecting new ones in this style . Vasari was not alone among 15th and 16th Italian writers , as Filarete and Giannozzo Manetti had also written scathing criticisms of the Gothic style , calling it a `` barbaric prelude to the Renaissance . '' Vasari and company were writing at a time when many aspects and vocabulary pertaining to Classical architecture had been reasserted with the Renaissance in the late 15th and 16th centuries , and they had the perspective that the `` maniera tedesca '' or `` maniera dei Goti '' was the antithesis of this resurgent style leading to the continuation of this negative connotation in the 17th century . François Rabelais , also of the 16th century , imagines an inscription over the door of his utopian Abbey of Thélème , `` Here enter no hypocrites , bigots ... '' slipping in a slighting reference to `` Gotz '' and `` Ostrogotz . '' Molière also made this note of the Gothic style in the 1669 poem La Gloire : </P>
who developed the first example of gothic architecture
who developed the first example of gothic architecture
Giorgio Vasari
Giorgio Vasari