10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «GOTHICISER»
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The last architect at work upon the house was Anthony Salvin, who, having
played the restorer upon the ancient walls of Windsor Castle and the Tower of
London, was much in request as "gothiciser" of country seats. Gathered within
are many ...
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Czech Republic: The Bradt Travel Guide
identity, Karlstejn's historical significance was realised again, and in 1886 funds
were released by the imperial authorities for its restoration, carried out by Josef
Mocker, the great 'neo-Gothiciser'. The intention was to revert the castle to its ...
Today the individuality of his work, its great technical skill and his originality can
still be seen in St. George's Chapel, which commemorates him as a notable
gothiciser and a craftsman of outstanding ability. He may be a minor figure in the
...
... Hollar the engraver, John the mason, Hugh May and Christopher Wren the
controllers,John Norden the surveyor, master John Shorne, Simon the carpenter,
seignior Antonio Verrio, and Sirjeffry Wyatville the gothiciser. Only a thousand
sets ...
B. Weinreb Architectural Books Ltd, 1964
... worth remembering that in her use of the Gordon clan here Mary Shelley is not
merely following history as she found it in Ford and in her other principal source,
the defence of Richard III which had been written by the arch-gothiciser Horace ...
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Arthurian literature and society
Stephen Thomas Knight. (1843) gave the same message in more strident and
more influential terms. The value of medievalism for the anti- progressive forces
was recognised by George III himself, an early gothiciser (Girouard, 1981, pp. 22-
6).
Stephen Thomas Knight, 1983
... then, gothiciser and medievalist extraordinaire1. Mr Crook's immense and
fearsomely priced book enables us for the first time to understand the genesis of
his style, the intentions of his work, and all of its main memorials. But it leaves us
very ...
Stephen Spender, Irving Kristol, 1981
... gothiciser and medievalist extraordinaire! Mr Crook's immense and fearsomely
priced book enables us for the first time to understand the genesis of his style, the
intentions of his work, and all of its main memorials. But it leaves us very much ...
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Over the Alps: Reflections on Travel and Travel Writing with ...
... Vathek, in his Standard Library where it would be accompanied by The Castle
of Otranto, that bit of nonsense from the pen of the pseudo- Gothiciser, Horace
Walpole (whose Strawberry Hill Beckford was to rifle at the sale of 1842). Most of
...
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Bohemia and Moravia: An Architectural Companion
The hand of the greatest Gothiciser of all, Santini, can be suspected only in one
place on the left bank. Svaty Havel's structure is as old as the town Vaclav II
created round it in the thirteenth century, but it has been miserably redecorated.
