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‘So great a cloud of witnesses’: Shaping Sacred Space in the Victorian Anglo-World

19, 2020
This article explores one of the predominant themes in nineteenth-century stained glass: the urge to assemble collections of individual figures into genealogies of spiritual or institutional descent.
Gareth Atkins
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The Jocs Florals in Contemporary Catalan Literature [PDF]

Catalan Historical Review, 2013
In 1859, the very same stimulus that drove the ambition to create Barcelona’s Eixample (“enlargement”) design by urban planner Cerdà served to “restore” the Jocs Florals in Barcelona, a symbolic complement which quite calculatedly evoked powerful ...
Josep M. Domingo
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The Chapel of La Misericordia in the Quarter of Flores, Buenos Aires

Eikón Imago, 2014
One of the most interesting areas of research of the Gothic Revival in Argentina is the study of chapels built for the use of religious schools’ communities.
Ofelia Manzi, Patricia Grau-Dieckmann
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Gothic Opera in Britain and France: Genre, Nationalism, and Trans-Cultural Angst [PDF]

, 2004
Rescue operas developed along two somewhat different lines: “tyrant” operas and “humanitarian” operas within the general category of “opera semiseria,” or “opéra comique.” The first type corresponds to the conservative British “loyalty gothic,” with its ...
Cordova, Sarah Davies, Hoeveler, Diane
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Resurrection, Re-Imagination, Reconstruction: New Viewpoints on the Hereford Screen

British Art Studies, 2017
The Hereford Screen is one of the most complex and intricate choir screens of the Victorian era. Positioned in the gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum’s main entrance, its glistening metalwork, brass, and terracotta effect surfaces, incrustations ...
Ayla Lepine
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Les ivoires gothiques : foisonnement et renouveau des études

Perspective, 2017
Since the 1970s, the study of Gothic ivories has undergone a genuine revival that has further flourished in recent years, thanks in particular to the Courtauld Institute of Art online database containing more than five thousand pieces.
Michele Tomasi
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Sigurd Lewerentz: Church of St Peter, Klippan, 1963–66 [PDF]

, 2002
This modest building questions basic assumptions about processes and finishes, about the nature of brickwork and the detailing of window frames – and provides a powerful space for ...
Blundell Jones, P.
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POLITICAL, HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL ASPECTS OF THE GOTHIC AND THE ARTHURIAN REVIVAL

Вестник Мининского университета, 2017
The article focuses on the existence of The Gothic revival and The Arthurian revival in Victorian England. Оn the basis of Russian and English-language historiography the author makes a conclusion that The Arthurian revival, prepared by The Gothic ...
E. M. Kiryukhina
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Snippets from the north: Architects in Durban and their response to identity, common culture and resistance in the 1930s

Vitruvio: International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability, 2019
Previously colonized by both Holland and Britain, South Africans have always borrowed; many taking aesthetic clues from memories of ‘home’. Applied seemingly irrelevantly, these ‘clues’ often border on the pastiche.
Debbie Whelan
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Medieval Stained Glass and the Victorian Restorer

19, 2020
The recovery of the ‘true principles’ of stained glass as an integral part of the Gothic Revival of the nineteenth century grew out of a complex relationship between restoration, reinvention, and startling creativity. The tensions between craft, commerce,
Sarah Brown
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