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The Rayonnant Gothic style, which was defined by abundant and ... “Hood later designed the Rockefeller Center, which is Art Deco. They peel off the historicizing detail, but it has that Gothic ...
Augustus Pugin, a chief advocate of the Gothic Revival style, drew this circa 1809 study of Westminster Abbey. Illustration by Augustus Charles Pugin, Heritage Art/Getty Images Dating from 1245 ...
Gothic architecture, like the art of pottery, does quite well with flames. The Gothic style first emerged in the mid-12th century at the Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis just north of Paris. Abbot Suger ...
using the cutting edge of technology to create a brand-new British style of architecture. While in art and literature, the Gothic allowed Horace Walpole, Bram Stoker and Dickens to capture the ...
Partly built starting in 1145, and then reconstructed over a 26-year period after the fire of 1194, Chartres Cathedral marks the high point of French Gothic art. The vast nave, in pure ogival style, ...
It led to the construction of ensembles of public buildings bordering the Oval Maidan open space, first in the Victorian Neo-Gothic style and then, in the early 20th century, in the Art Deco idiom.