Johann Wolfgang Goethe

Johann Wolfgang Goethe in the Roman Countryside

Frozen Music - Perpetually-rising waterfall of M.C. Escher related to the perpetually-rising canons of Bach

Cologne Cathedral. Construction began again 1832 after 300 year hiatus.

Augustus Pugin

Pugin's "Contrasts" suggests a moral superiority of medieval lifestyle above modern

Parliament burns

Barry and Pugin win competition for Houses of Parliament

Big Ben clock tower of British Parliament

Pugin designed interiors

Trinity Church in lower Manhattan (Wall Street) in 1846 (third version) by Richard Upjohn

Trinity Church in lower Manhattan (Wall Street) in 1846 by Richard Upjohn

Contemporary drawing of Trinity Church (1846)

Washington's inauguration (1789) - Trinity Church in distance (second version)

B. Henry Latrobe's first design for the Baltimore Cathedral was Gothic Revival (1804)

John Ruskin

All Saints (1849) (Margaret Street, London) High Victorian Gothic

All Saints (1849) (Margaret Street, London) High Victorian Gothic

All Saints (1849) (Margaret Street, London) High Victorian Gothic

Ruskin's Stones of Venice (1853)

John Ruskin watercolor

John Ruskin watercolor

John Ruskin watercolor

John Ruskin watercolor

John Ruskin watercolor

Victor Hugo publishes "Notre Dame of Paris" in 1831

Victor Hugo publishes "Notre Dame of Paris" in 1831 - a complex and trenchant allegory of the nature of the church and of culture

Title page of "Notre Dame of Paris" (1831)

Title page of "Notre Dame of Paris" (1831) showing Esmerelda helping Quasimodo

1923 Hollywood production of Hunchback of Notre Dame

Disney production (1996)

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc

Painting by Viollet-le-Duc

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc preservation project - St Denis

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc preservation project - St Sernin in Toulouse

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc preservation project - Chateau Pierrefonds

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc preservation project - Chateau Pierrefonds

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc preservation project - Notre Dame of Paris

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc - structural rationalism, drawing

Eugene Viollet-le-Duc - structural rationalism, drawing

Ste Genevieve in Paris, 1843 (library) by Henri Labrouste - structural rationalism in reading room

Ste Genevieve in Paris, 1843 (library) by Henri Labrouste - structural rationalism in reading room

Ste Genevieve in Paris, 1843 (library) by Henri Labrouste - structural rationalism in reading room

Ste Genevieve in Paris, 1843 (library) by Henri Labrouste - structural rationalism in reading room

At Ste Genevieve in Paris, the names of the great authors are carved into the building