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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) was an architect who designed the tower the houses Big Ben, the Houses of Parliament, the interio...

There is a 20th century art historian who has appeared in two posts because of his eye-opening contributions to the field in the 1940s: here...

Artist's conception on what buttresses would have looked like early on. On 15 April, 2019, a fire ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in P...

7th c. Asturian Church of Santa Cristina de Lena, Spain This will be a brief introduction to the styles of medieval architecture that e...

This is a slightly different tack for DailyMedieval, but many fans of his fiction are unaware of his career as a medievalist. John Rona...

One of the largest cathedrals in England—in fact, one of the longest Gothic cathedrals in Europe—Winchester has been through many changes. T...

I have mentioned St.-Denis in Paris as the first church in the Gothic style. That project was a re -building of an earlier church—a churc...

Abbot Suger in stained glass Back here , I discussed Gothic architecture, but there was no time to mention its birthplace, the Abbey Chu...

[This is Part 4; the other 3 parts address Gothic Culture & History, Gothic Architecture, and the Gothic Revival.] The Gothic Revival ...

[This is Part 3; the other 3 parts address Gothic Culture & History, Gothic Architecture, and Fiction.] Augustus W. Pugin In 1740,...

[This is Part 2; the other 3 parts address Gothic Culture & History, the Gothic Revival, and Fiction.] Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574), art...

[This is Part 1; the other 3 parts address Gothic Architecture, the Gothic Revival, and Fiction.] From the Middle Ages until 1974, the Kin...