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Victorian Architecture Your source for information on Victorian architecture, with facts, photos, resources, and building plans.
John Ruskin - Champion of the Gothic Revival Style in Britain Your starting place for exploring the life and works of English writer, artist and philosopher John Ruskin who championed the Gothic Revival style in Britain.
Art History 101 - A Brisk Walk Through the Eras Art History 101 - A Brisk Walk Through the Eras. Medieval to Early Renaissance Art - 400-1400.
House Styles and Home Architecture This page is your starting place for exploring house styles, with links to facts, photos, diagrams, and building plans for the most popular housing styles in North America.
The Biedermeier Culture - The Rise of the Middle Class and the Related Works of Schubert The Biedermeier period in 18th century Vienna had a profound impact on the works of composers such as Schubert. This article discusses the rise, causes and result of the Biedermeier period.
Venetian morphology: the visual fluidity of Venice was reflected in a show of Turner's watercolors and the city's latest building-design biennial
By a unique act of esthetic photosynthesis, Venice has over the centuries converted wealth into lasting architectural beauty. But in the 25 years that ......(Continue Reading) Was there a George VI style? Now that the story of British architecture and design in the twentieth century is less often distorted by over-emphasis on
Writing under his pseudonym, Peter F. Donner, in the Architectural Review in November 1941, Nikolaus Pevsner opened by stating that 'Every phase in history has its style permeating all its producti...(Continue Reading)Building awareness - Architecture in the Art Room
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Thomas Hardy's early novel A Laodicean (first published in 1881) focuses on the relationship between Paula Power, a spirited young woman intent on breathing ......(Continue Reading)Framing the Gothic: From pillar to post-structuralism
The low throb of a bass guitar pounded from giant speakers from somewhere inside: the Rolling Stones' Sympathy for the Devil. Mick Jagger's ragged voice ......(Continue Reading)
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