Andrew Graham-Dixon explores how a group of 19th-century architects and artists spurned the modern age and turned to Britain's medieval past to create iconic works and buildings.
The Gothic Revival was a conscious movement that began in England to revive medieval Gothic forms, from the second half of the 18th century and throughout the 19th century. The 18th century examples ...
Ornamental plant designs, geometric patterns, and a heraldic crest dating back as far as the late 15th century have been ...
The most memorable cathedrals are in one form or other of Gothic – a radical art and engineering movement that appeared and evolved with incredible speed during the 12th century. What on earth ...
In the late 19th century, artists were going goth ... examines how they looked to medieval art for inspiration. “Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light” at the Ateneum Art Museum places ...
When American Gothic was first exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago ... in which 18th- and 19th-century subjects often posed in front of their houses, suggest that Wood believed these ...