The 18th century examples were often domestic, with highly decorative interiors, seen at Strawberry Hill, making the style fashionable. By the early 1800s though, scholarship on medieval Gothic was ...
The oil on copper miniature portrait, originally believed to be by Bronzino, is the subject of an exhibition at its former ...
This won’t be the home for everyone, but the right buyers will take one look at quixotic magic of 17 Church Street in ...
The house predated and inspired the Gothic revivalism in Victorian architecture. After he had built Strawberry Hill House, Walpole claimed the idea for his novel The Castle of Otranto came to him ...
An exquisite miniature portrait by Italian painter Lavinia Fontana was serendipitously rediscovered after turning up at an auction in Texas.
Walpole had built his Gothic revivalist palace, Strawberry Hill House, painstakingly over several years. Keen to include the various Gothic features he so admired in other great architecture ...