Heaven’s Gate
Rosemary Hill, 8 September 1994
Pugin: A Gothic Passion
edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright.
Yale, 310 pp., £45, June 1994,0 300 06014 9 Show More
edited by Paul Atterbury and Clive Wainwright.
Yale, 310 pp., £45, June 1994,
“... than bad taste. In Pugin’s youth the Gothic Revival had moved on since Walpole’s Strawberry Hill, but had scarcely developed. It remained a novelty style. Pugin’s father, the French émigré artist and self-styled count, Auguste Charles, had published books of Gothic details, drawn to scale from medieval buildings, that contributed to a better ... ”