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A brief guide to the defining architectural style of Victorian Britain and its greatest architects.
Pub. for Bard Grad. Ctr. for Studies in Decorative Arts, NY, Exhibition catalog.
"This book has its origins in a symposium organised by Michael Hall for the Georgian Group on October 28, 2000." -- t.p. verso.
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Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index
Most analyses of the nineteenth-century Gothic revival in architecture have treated it as an essentially English phenomenon. This work is one of the few to consider the important parallel developments in Europe and thus set the movement in proper international perspective.One interesting aspect of the Gothic revival is its development in notably different national ways. Dr. Germann examines the semantics of "Gothic" and "style" in Italian, French, and English and shows how each country's concept of style influenced the choice of particular Gothic modes and forms. In England the Gothic revival went hand in hand with liturgical revivals. French art historians saw the renewal of the Gothic styl...