victorian housesWhich of the following is best representative of the Victorian Architectural Period? victorian houses

Question by georgia_1234567890: Which of the following is best representative of the Victorian Architectural Period?
Academic Classical
American Romanesque
Arts and Crafts
Carpenter Gothic
English Queen Anne Revival
Free Classical
Georgian (boring)
Gothic Revival
Italianate
Mannerist
Picturesque Gothic
Regency
Renaissance Revival
Romanesque
Second Empire
Stick / Shingle
Tudor
Vernacular

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Answer by _Picnic
Arts and Crafts catches the end of the Victorian period and lasts into the early 20th century however it is the Gothic Revival which lasts for a longer time in the Victorian period, although the revival started before then.

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  1. MollC
    Tue 19th Oct 2010 at 5:09 pm

    Gothic Revival
    Think Ruskin and Pugin

    http://www.artscrafts.org.uk/roots/pugin.html

    ‘It is really only after 1840 the the Gothic Revival began to gather steam, and when it did the prime movers were not architects at all, but philosophers and social critics. This is the really curious aspect of the Victorian Gothic revival; it intertwined with deep moral and philosophical ideals in a way that may seem hard to comprehend in today’s world. Men like A.W. Pugin and writer John Ruskin (The Seven Lamps of Architecture, 1849) sincerely believed that the Middle Ages was a watershed in human achievement and that Gothic architecture represented the perfect marriage of spiritual and artistic values.

    Ruskin allied himself with the Pre-Raphaelites and vocally advocated a return to the values of craftsmanship, artistic, and spiritual beauty in architecture and the arts in general. Ruskin and his brethren declared that only those materials which had been available for use in the Middle Ages should be employed in Gothic Revival buildings.’
    http://www.britainexpress.com/architecture/gothic-revival.htm

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