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Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (181252), architect, author and interior designer, was among the most important figures in Britain's nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. First published in 1836, Contrasts is his most famous work, and this revised second edition of 1841 champions medieval architecture by satirically comparing it with 'debased' Regency equivalents.

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Preface to the second edition; Plates; 1. On the feelings which produced the great edifices of the middle ages; 2. On the revived pagan principle; 3. Under Henry VIII; 4. Under Edward VI; 5. On the present degraded state of ecclesiastical buildings; Conclusion; Appendix.

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      Publisher Cambridge University Press
      Published 6/27/2013 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9781108061346
      978-1108061346
      ISBN-10 1108061346
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      History of architecture

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (181252), architect, author and interior designer, was among the most important figures in Britain's nineteenth-century Gothic Revival. First published in 1836, Contrasts is his most famous work, and this revised second edition of 1841 champions medieval architecture by satirically comparing it with 'debased' Regency equivalents.

      Table of Contents
      Preface to the second edition; Plates; 1. On the feelings which produced the great edifices of the middle ages; 2. On the revived pagan principle; 3. Under Henry VIII; 4. Under Edward VI; 5. On the present degraded state of ecclesiastical buildings; Conclusion; Appendix.

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