neo-Gothic style

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neo-Gothic style

Historicist, romantic, and catholic attempts to revive Gothic medieval art from the late eighteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries. The first furniture designs were published in 1742, influenced Chippendale, and produced the Gothic Windsor chair, popular for two decades. Regency Gothic preceded the stronger nineteenth-century revival, which swept the continent during the 1830s, and dominated American work 1830–80 ending with the Eastlake phase.
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A 19th-century French wooden trinket box (Lot 107) done in Neo-Gothic style is decorated in opulent relief of eclectic foliage and animalia - a favorite subject of the period.
The A-listed building is in the neo-Gothic style and is one of the most architecturally important in Britain, having once been known as the 'Baptist cathedral of Europe'.
Soon, the neo-gothic style came to the fore, particularly in churches, O'Hara said, and became so popular that people with the Tiffany glass were throwing them out or storing them.
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 20thcentury, in the Art Deco idiom.
Our tour guide told us that the mosque has come to be a bastion of religious tolerance as it stands right in front of the Jakarta cathedral - the oldest Roman Catholic Cathedral in Jakarta built in neo-gothic style. In fact, whenever there is a large Muslim or Christian celebration as in Christmas or Eid Al-Fitr, both institutions open up their parking space for the worshipers of the other.
Which London building was built in the 19th century neo-gothic style: a) St Paul's Cathedral, b) St Pancras station, or c) Buckingham Palace?
Located at 233 Broadway, It was designed by the famed architect Cass Gilbert in neo-Gothic style, and constructed with a terracotta facade.
neo-Gothic style by the architect Cass Gilbert, whom Frank Woolworth commissioned in 1910 to design a 20-story office building as the F.W.
He jokes that his Neo-Gothic style might not be for everyone.
Edmund Turbeville Williams and completed in 1862 in a neo-Gothic style much of which remains today with Gothic arch windows, a striking conical turret and finished in ashlar stone with Bath stone dressings.
Across from the buff-colored Town Hall is a darker building in neo-Gothic style, known as the King's House (even though, no king has ever lived there).
Built in 1877 in Neo-Gothic style, it was home to James Henderschott, a state legislator in the early days of Oregon statehood.
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