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Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Orford (/ ˈ w ɔː l p oʊ l /; 24 September 1717 – 2 March 1797), better known as Horace Walpole, was an English writer, art historian, man of letters, antiquarian, and Whig politician.
Strawberry Hill House—often called simply Strawberry Hill—is a Gothic Revival villa that was built in Twickenham, London, by Horace Walpole (1717–1797) from 1749 onward. It is a typical example of the "Strawberry Hill Gothic" style of architecture, [1] and it prefigured the nineteenth-century Gothic Revival.
The chapel is an example of early Gothic Revival architecture and is a Grade I listed building. [1] The chapel was built for Horace Walpole in 1772–74 and was in the grounds of his home, Strawberry Hill House. Subsequent building separated the chapel from the house, as the nearest parts of those grounds have been built on with what is now St ...
Wentworth Castle: Horace Walpole found the south front (finished 1764) evinced "the most perfect taste in architecture". Wentworth Castle is a grade-I listed country house, the former seat of the Earls of Strafford, at Stainborough, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. It is now home to the Northern College for Residential and Community ...
Horace Walpole associates the term with irregularity, asymmetry, and freedom from the rigid conventions of classical design; by the time it was used by Walpole it had become a common term in the lexicon of eighteenth-century aesthetic theory. [7] [8] However, the original word for sharawadgi has been a matter of debate.
Coughton Court / ˈ k oʊ t ən / [1] (grid reference) is an English Tudor country house, situated on the main road between Studley and Alcester in Warwickshire.It is a Grade I listed building.
First stage of Horace Walpole's Gothic Revival 'castle' at Strawberry Hill House near London is completed. Kastrupgård in Copenhagen, designed by Jacob Fortling for himself, is completed. Carlyle House, Alexandria, Virginia, is completed. Cuvilliés Theatre in the Munich Residenz, Bavaria, designed by François de Cuvilliés, is opened.
Johann Heinrich Müntz (1727–1798) was an Alsatian-Swiss painter and architect, known when working in England as John Henry Muntz. He was in England for seven years, and at the heart of a group trying to adapt the rococo to architecture and interior design. He has been seen as a pioneer of the Gothic Revival. [1]