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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin[a] (/ ˈpjuːdʒɪn / PEW-jin; 1 March 1812 – 14 September 1852) was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture.
Feb 28, 2023 · The first few decades of Gothic Revival master Augustus Pugin’s life were filled with activity and strain, and there would be more obstacles and tribulations. Pugin had periods of blindness. His second wife died.
Apr 24, 2012 · Pugin was a fierce critic of the crass materialism and social exploitation of the early Industrial Revolution and imagined a return to a mythical pre-Reformation society of true Christian values and architectural forms serving the Faith. His position was well illustrated in the plates of Contrasts. In the second edition he contrasted the the ...
May 31, 1994 · This endlessly quotable figure was Augustus Welby Pugin, who died in 1852 aged only forty, having transformed the British architectural scene. Like the older Viollet-le-Duc, he worshipped the...
- The Art Newspaper
Dec 4, 2012 · When Phoebe Stanton died in 2003, her life's work, a monumental study of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, remained unpublished. Stanton was emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University and the recipient of the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1980.
- Kathryn E. Holliday
- 2012
Apr 24, 2024 · Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, whose ideas may seem at first glance to be rooted in the Middle Ages, was actually a child of the Industrial Revolution, sharing his generation’s enthusiasm for innovation and progress.
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Augustus Pugin was the leading figure in the revival of the Gothic style which became increasingly important throughout the nineteenth century, gradually replacing Classical styles in popularity.
