Pointed Arches are the Dividing Line: Round Arches are Not Gothic

A comparison of openings. Gothic arches are formed by two circular segments meeting at a point at the apex, with the arch height significantly greater than its width; in contrast, the Romanesque round arch is a semicircle, wide, flat, and stable. All doors, windows, niches, and even furniture outlines in the scene uniformly use pointed arches. Avoid: mixing in semicircular or flattened arches, depicting pointed arches as horseshoe or ogee shapes, making the arch's height-to-width ratio close to square, or using multiple arch types on the same facade.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一排開口的比較。哥德的拱是兩段圓弧在頂端相交成一個尖,拱的高度明顯大於寬度;旁邊對照的羅馬式圓拱是半圓形,寬扁而穩。畫面裡所有的門、窗、壁龕、甚至家具的輪廓都統一使用尖拱。避免:混入半圓拱與扁平拱、把尖拱畫成馬蹄形或蔥形、讓拱的高寬比接近正方、在同一立面上混用多種拱型。