GOTHIC
A term first coined by the Italian writer and artist Giorgio Vasari (1511 – 74) in reference to the French Style of architecture used in the design of many European cathedrals throughout the medieval and late medieval periods (12th – 16th centuries). Vasari regarded this architectural form as primitive or ugly and used the term gothic as a reference to the destruction of Roman civilization by the barbarian Germanic (Goths) tribes. The Goths were a part of the Celtic nation of peoples who occupied North Europe in what is now modern Germany.