Romanesque architecture eventually evolved into Gothic, swapping thick walls for thin ones and small windows for large ones. The Renaissance, however, reverted back to the ancient Roman way of ...

Gothic architecture, exemplified by cathedrals, was characterized by innovations like rib vaulting and flying buttresses, allowing for lighter structures and larger windows that filled interiors ...

Gothic architecture, or the 'modern style' as it ... architects was to relieve walls of their structural role so that windows could get larger allowing God's light, manipulated with the hues ...