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- DictionaryGoth·ic Re·viv·al
noun
- 1. the renewed popularity of the Gothic style of architecture towards the middle of the 19th century: "the Gothic Revival was in its heyday between 1855 and 1885"
adjective
- 1. of or in a 19th-century style of architecture characterized by the revival of medieval Gothic forms: "a Gothic Revival building"
4 days ago · Post-Gothic, Gothic Revival architecture, Baroque Gothic Gothic architecture is an architectural style that was prevalent in Europe from the late 12th to the 16th century, during the High and Late Middle Ages , surviving into the 17th and 18th centuries in some areas. [1]
Apr 17, 2024 · Gothic architecture, architectural style in Europe that lasted from the mid-12th century to the 16th century, particularly a style of masonry building characterized by cavernous spaces with the expanse of walls broken up by overlaid tracery. Learn more about Gothic architecture, its characteristics, and its history.
Apr 17, 2024 · Gothic art, the painting, sculpture, and architecture characteristic of the second of two great international eras that flourished in western and central Europe during the Middle Ages. Gothic art evolved from Romanesque art and lasted from the mid-12th century to as late as the end of the 16th century in some areas.
4 days ago · [1] Gothic fiction, sometimes called Gothic horror (primarily in the 20th century), is a loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting. The name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels.
Apr 15, 2024 · Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc was a French Gothic Revival architect, restorer of French medieval buildings, and writer whose theories of rational architectural design linked the revivalism of the Romantic period to 20th-century Functionalism.
Apr 24, 2024 · The spelling “Gothick” denotes a pseudo-archaic Gothic Revival idiom that originated in England in the eighteenth century and intermingled authentic Gothic with other elements such as classical motifs and Chinoiserie.
Apr 15, 2024 · A big departure from the plain, yet classically proportioned Federal period homes in Warren, this Gothic Revival on Main Street turns heads when people pass by. A quintessential Gothic “cottage,” the facade of the Dow-Starr House in Warren has also been graced by a three-sectioned Gothic Revival porch as illustrated in Alexander Jackson Downing’s plan books from the 1840s.
