gothic revival
Pointed-arch aesthetic movement
A gothic revival is any renewed interest in the gothic—whether medieval architecture, dark romantic literature, or gloomy aesthetics.
The phrase describes movements or trends that look backward to gothic forms: The victorian gothic revival transformed English architecture. (Capitalized Gothic Revival is the specific 18th-19th century architectural movement.)
- hauntedOccupied by ghosts
- ruinsDecayed structural remains
- Victorian EnglandNineteenth-century British imperial period
- medievalismStudy of Middle Ages
- atmosphericOf the air above
grotesques · brooding · anti-modernism · wood carvings · medieval chivalry · medieval romance · ivy · ivy-covered walls · spires · gargoyles · pointed arches · rose window · tracery · crenellations · cultural identity · flying buttresses · cloisters · stained glass
- architectureEiffel Tower, buildings, architects, design, thatching
- Gothicgargoyle, pointed arch, flying buttress, rose window, buttress
- genre fictionhigh fantasy, detective fiction, low fantasy, spy fiction, dark fantasy
- RomanticismWilliam Blake, the sublime, J.M.W. Turner, Eugene Delacroix, emotionalism
- Art Revivalsrevivalism
- church architecturealtar, altars, nave, naves, aisle
gothic revivalneoclassicism
Movement emulating antiquity's forms
classical revival · neoclassical · Beaux-Arts · modernism · International Style
gothic revivalaustere
Severely simple and unadorned
minimalist · minimalism · rationalism · classical · functionalism