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Recollections of A.N. Welby Pugin
Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
God's Architect
Pugin was one of Britain�s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in 1812, the son of the soi-disant Comte de Pugin, at 15 Pugin was working for King George IV at Windsor Castle. By the time he was 21 he had been shipwrecked, bankrupted and widowed. Nineteen years later he died, insane and disillusioned, having changed the face and the mind of British architecture. Pugin�s bohemian early career as an antique dealer and scenery designer at Covent Garden came to a sudden end with a series of devastating bereavements, including the loss of his first wife in childbirth. In the aftermath he formed a vision of Gothic architecture that w...
Recollections of A N. Welby Pugin, and His Father, Augustus Pugin
Excerpt from Recollections of A N. Welby Pugin, and His Father, Augustus Pugin: With Notices of Their Works No man of the present generation has distinguished himself more signally in his own peculiar line than Augustus Welby Pugin; anything, therefore, relating to his history and career, may prove interesting to those who take an interest in the revival of Mediæval Architecture. His original genius and varied acquirements are acknowledged by all who enjoyed the privilege of his acquaintance; while his Publications, by their forcible style and their free utterance of stubborn truths, have made no little stir in the artistic world, and are quoted as affording the best axioms in the branch of...
Pugin
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was the most influential designer in nineteenth-century Britain. This is the first book to offer a complete appraisal of Pugin's life and achievements; it contains twenty-one essays by international scholars and specialists; and superb photography has been specially commissioned, and includes numerous objects and buildings never before reproduced.
