The Gothic Revival was a conscious movement that began in England to revive medieval Gothic ... He produces a chronology, entitled; ’An Attempt to Discriminate the Styles of Architecture in England ...
Sir Charles Barry travelled around Europe and the Middle East studying architecture ... The term 'Gothic revival' describes medieval-style buildings erected in the mid 19th century.
He used a mixture of Gothic Revival and twelfth-century Romanesque-style architecture, in line with Museum founder Sir Richard Owen’s vision of creating a ‘cathedral to nature’. Waterhouse chose to ...
From the time of Giorgio Vasari's Vite (1550) through circa 1818, the portmanteau Gothic often served as a blanket and dismissive term encompassing any non-classical architecture from the ...