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 ...
The village of Peratallada, belonging to the municipality of Forallac, in the Baix Empordà, is declared a Historic-Artistic Ensemble and is considered one of the most important and best-preserved ...
It was used to describe medieval culture, particularly art and architecture. People in the Middle Ages had not called their own culture Gothic - the term was applied retrospectively as an insult.