Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Robert Bork, a professor of art history at the University of Iowa and a specialist in the study of ...

This includes an increasing interest in preserving and restoring older buildings, with a need to understand the different styles of Gothic architecture. In 1817, the architect Thomas Rickman is one of ...

It appeared first in Lesser Poland, but the first Cistercian monasteries erected here – in Jędrzejów, Koprzywnica, Sulejów or Wąchock – represent rather a transitional period between Romanism and ...

Gothic architecture, or the 'modern style' as it was known 850 years ago, is immensely popular among architectural historians. Broadcaster and art historian Dan Cruickshank appraises its on-screen ...

Image: Edmund Harris Rogue Gothic is Victorian architecture at its most flamboyant, eccentric and colourful, and London is one of the best places to see it. We're so used to having buildings with ...

His paper Memories of Church Restoration was read at a society meeting in June 1906 and, in one of his reports, he wrote: ‘Irregularity is the genius of Gothic architecture, and it is an act of ...

In Britain, the Gothic style was revived in the 18th Century, predominantly for churches and university buildings. Baroque architecture is closely entwined with the Counter-Reformation ...