Italian painter Giotto may not have dressed in black, but he devoted his life to this style of art, pictured here in his Madonna and Child.

No, goths aren't all about dark colors and being sad. The 12th-14th century Gothic era dropped classical ideals and instead created extraordinary manifestations in art and architecture, from the flying buttresses and gargoyles of Notre Dame to the stained glass windows and Gothic paintings with naturalistic and sensuous features.

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