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Gothic or '''Goth''' may refer to: GERMANIC TRIBE
RENAISSANCE ART From a Renaissance perspective (originally Italian, ''gotico'', with connotations of "rough, barbarous"), it conveyed the opposite of 'classical' or 'Roman', hence:
CULTURE ARCHITECTURE
ROMANTICISM From the 18th century, the word came to mean Germanic in general, with grim overtones:
From its use in Romanticism, the word in the 20th century came to refer to anything dark or gloomy:
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