Romantic Gothic Revival
Gothic Revival Home in Bath, England
Most Gothic Revival homes were romantic adaptations of medieval architecture. Delicate wooden ornaments and other decorative details suggested the architecture of medieval England.
Romanticism
An artistic style which dominated or influenced much of European art through most of the nineteenth century. With an emphasis on emotional expression, the movement embraced the art of the Gothic period.
Romantic: The early 19th century Neoclassical (which see) architectural styles are referred to as "Romantic" because, unlike the preceding Renaissance Classical (which see) styles which appealed to the intellect, ...
Romanticism - Part of the Enlightenment; the age of reason and the common good. It was more an attitude of mind than a style of art and architecture. All revival styles fall into the Romantic Picturesque ideal.
Romanticize
to glamorize or portray in a romantic, as opposed to a realistic, manner.
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Romantic Movement, Romanticism - a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"
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Because of Romantic nationalism in the early 19th century, the Germans, French and English all claimed the original Gothic architecture of the 12th century as originating in their own country.
By the 1830s this romantic style, which developed in England, became popular in the U.S. and was widespread by the 1840s and 1850s and continued to be built after the Civil War; hence, few examples of this style were built in Eau Claire.
rojiA Roji is a 'dewy path' to a tea house in a Japanese garden romanticRomanticism shows itself in the artist's attitude of mind and choice of subject.
The most original architect in England at the time was Sir John Soane; the museum he built (1812-1813) as his own London house still excites astonishment for its inventive romantic virtuosity.
Regency architecture can best be described as Romantic Classicism because it has liberal quantities of both the classical and the romantic.
The roots of expressionism can be seen in the works of late romantic composers such as Richard Wagner of Germany, and in the compositions of postromantics such as the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler.
Represented culmination of picturesque, romantic styles of 19th century. Anything goes: style itself is based on "decorative excess" and variety. No focus on specific historical detailing; rather, a combination of various forms/styles.
The Cottage home is typically a smaller design with picturesque details and informal but romantic styling. Consider images of a cozy and inviting storybook home.
By the 1830s, a growing taste for the romantic and dissatisfaction with the restraints of classical architecture had turned the Gothic Revival into a popular movement in America.
The influence of English romanticism and the mass production of elaborate wooden millwork after the Industrial Revolution fueled the construction of Gothic Revival homes in the mid-1800s.
He was a typically hardheaded Scot, canny and remorselessly ambitious, yet with a tender, romantic side to his character as well.
The effort has produced such varying results as the epithets of Vasari and Evelyn, the nebulous or sentimental paraphrases of the early nineteenth century romanticists, the narrow archeological definitions of De Caumont, ...
Within the citadel is the mosque of Aslan Pasha built in 1688 which, with its position overlooking the lake, is one of the most romantic Turkish buildings in the Balkans.
It is necessary to refer to this because it is generally supposed that whatever is best in recent glass is due to the romantic movement.
 See also: Roman, Architecture, House, Arches, Gothic
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