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John Bowen (1756 – 19 June 1832) [1] was an English painter, genealogist and antiquarian. Life. Bowen was the eldest son of James Bowen, painter and topographer ...
At the end of the Restoration (1814–1830) and during the Louis-Philippe period (1830-1848), Gothic Revival motifs start to appear in France, together with revivals of the Renaissance and of Rococo. During these two periods, the vogue for medieval things led craftsmen to adopt Gothic decorative motifs in their work, such as bell turrets ...
Bowen returned to Britain in 1953, moved to London and spent three years as an assistant editor on The Sketch magazine. He then turned to advertising, and while working at J. Walter Thompson (1956–58), he was part of the team that launched the successful marketing campaign for Rowntree's "Have a break, have a Kit-Kat", which is still used to advertise the product.
Sint-Petrus-en-Pauluskerk in Ostend (Belgium), built between 1899 and 1908. Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic or neo-Gothic) is an architectural movement that after a gradual build-up beginning in the second half of the 17th century became a widespread movement in the first half of the 19th century, mostly in England.
International Gothic (or Late Gothic) art is a style of figurative art datable between about 1370 and, in Italy, the first half of the 15th century. As the name emphasizes, this stylistic phase had an international scope, with common features as well as many local variables.
In 1974, the story was adapted as part of the BBC's A Ghost Story for Christmas strand by John Bowen as The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. [1] It was first broadcast on 23 December 1974 at 11.35. [ 2 ] The adaptation stars Michael Bryant as Somerton, and it was directed by Lawrence Gordon Clark .
After the Rain is a play by John Griffith Bowen, based on his 1958 novel about a 200-year flood. The action takes place in a university lecture hall two centuries after a massive rainfall. The action takes place in a university lecture hall two centuries after a massive rainfall.
John Bowen designed the original circular Market House in 1834. To this was added the corn exchange of 1875 by Charles Knowles. The Corn Exchange immediately behind the rotunda, is square with a glazed hipped roof above horizontal-planked coving with rich late 19th-century ornamentation to the front and back walls.