单词 | greek revival |
释义 | > as lemmasGreek revival d. The reintroduction of a style of architecture, furniture, etc., characteristic of a particular earlier period; (also) architecture of this style. In later use frequently with modifying word, as Greek revival, Jacobean revival, etc., and often used attributively.Gothic Revival: see Gothic adj. 3d. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] > Gothic > Gothic revival revival1806 churchwarden1821 American Gothic1836 Strawberry Hill1836 Gothic1841 Puginesquery1848 Gothic Revival1869 1806 J. Dallaway Observ. on Eng. Archit. ix. 199 Italy, in the revival of classical architecture, presented an admirable model in St. Peter's Church. 1855 G. G. Scott Remarks Secular & Domest. Archit. (1858) 17 We have so generally come to the conclusion that the best period of our national architecture was the latter half of the thirteenth and the beginning of the fourteenth centuries, that we have insensibly adopted that as the groundwork of our revival. 1872 C. L. Eastlake Hist. Gothic Revival 209 The year in which the foundation stone of the Parliament Houses was laid may be taken as a turning point in the History of the Revival. 1901 P. L. Waterhouse Story of Art of Building x. 204 The [Gothic revival] style in America..for many years dominated the field, drawing its inspiration from Pugin, Ruskin, and the other writers, moral and artistic, that gave the revival its remarkable strength in England. 1936 Amer. Home Feb. 10/1 Pillars appeared on sideboards and bureaus. This classic revival expressed itself in England as the George III Period, or the English Regency. 1951 N. Pevsner Middlesex (Buildings of Eng.) 146 A little NE of Stanmore Hall is Warren House, elaborate Early Jacobean Revival with a rich porte-cochère. 1987 Canad. Heritage (Ottawa, Ont.) Aug.–Sept. 26/2 Darker greens and reds were favored by..architect, James Renwick, whose historic revival style produced many of the Mansardic and High Victorian buildings of Gothic and Italianate influence. 2008 Saving Cent. (Victorian Soc.) 29 The Midland Railway station in Ashby-de-la-Zouch is a handsome Greek Revival building built in 1849. < as lemmas |
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