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The Gothic Revival style is part of the picturesque and romantic movement in
architecture in the mid-19th century and reflects the public's taste for buildings inspired
by medieval design. This is really different from the styles that were popular before,

inspired by the classic forms of ancient Greek and Rome. However, both the Gothic
Revival style and the Greek Revival style looked back and both remained popular in the

mid-19th century.

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The most widely identifiable feature of the Gothic Revival style is the pointed arch,
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which is used for decorative elements such as windows, doors and porches, skylights or
roof grilles. It ismostly seen asymmetry, irregularity, particularity features in this buildings.
The earliest documented example of the revived use of Gothic
architectural elements is Strawberry Hil lHouse, Twickenham,
London, 1749
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Étienne-Louis Boullée, ( 1728-1799), French visionary architect, theorist and teacher.

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The distinctive aspect of Boullée's work is the abstraction of the geometrical forms
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proposed by ancient works to the concept of a new monumental structure that will
have a calm, ideal beauty and also an important expressive power. In his famous
article, La Théorie des corps, Boullée explored the properties of geometric forms and
their effects on the senses, the latter attributing "innate" symbolic attributes to the
ideal cube, pyramid, cylinder, and sphere.

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In his designs for public monuments, Boullée sought to inspire the viewer with

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supreme feelings, architectural forms that highlight the sublime, exemption and Perspective View of the Interior of Etienne-Louis Boullée's design for the
immense nature of the natural world, as well as the divine intelligence underlying its a Metropolitan Church, drawing Cenotaph for Newton. Exterior view.
creation. At the same time, he was strongly influenced by enthusiasm for antiquity by Étienne-Louis Boullée, 1780/81. Image © Bibliothèque Nationale de
France
and especially for Egyptian monuments.