. Religious art
In general, religious art had a better survival rate than some equivalent arts because a large proportion of the art realized in that period was religious, commissioned by the church or by the laity.
The first Gothic art building was built by Abbot Suger in France in the 12th century and it is called Basilica at Saint-Denis. Some monastic orders, like the Cistercians and the Carthusians disseminated distinctive styles of Gothic art in buildings all over Europe.
Even if in the late 14th century evolved an universal style named International Gothic, which continued in the late 15th century, many regional variations of the style remained important.