Gothic architecture (or pointed architecture) is an architectural style that was particularly popular in Europe from the late 12th century to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages, surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. It evolved from Romanesque architecture and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. It originated in the Île-de-France region of northern France as a development of Norman architecture. The style at the time was sometimes known as "opus Francigenum" (lit. French work); the term "Gothic" was first applied contemptuously during the later Renaissance, by those ambitious to revive the Grecian orders of architecture.