Gothick
18th century fashion based upon a fanciful interpretation of mediaeval Gothic.
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Gothick
A term describing buildings and design from the earliest phase of the Gothic Revival, from the mid eighteenth century onwards. Gothick buildings borrow details from Gothic buildings but use them decoratively only.
" The "Gothick" details of Walpole's Twickenham villa, "Strawberry Hill," (illustrated, right) appealed to the rococo tastes of the time, and by the 1770s, ...
Commissioners’ GothicThe kind of Gothic Revival style used for many of the Commissioners’ churches after 1818. It tends to be more accurate in terms of archaeology than the so-called Gothick of the 18th century, ...
In architecture it saw the rise of Palladianism; the styles of Robert Adam; the fashions for Rococo, Chinoiserie, Gothick and Hindoo. It also embraced early Gothic and Greek revivals and Neoclassicism.
 See also: Gothic, Architecture, Church, Gothic revival, Classical
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