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GOTHIC STYLE [12 records]

Record 1 2021-08-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

An eclectic architectural style and movement during the mid-late 19th century.

CONT

Unlike the Early Gothic Revival, the High Victorian Gothic style was mainly inspired by Venetian Gothic architecture rather than English Medieval buildings.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
CONT

Les nouveaux édifices du Parlement et du gouvernement, conçus dans le style néogothique à l'apogée de l'ère victorienne, étaient presque achevés à Ottawa et l'avant-cour se prêtait parfaitement aux assemblées publiques.

Key term(s)
  • style néo-gothique de la grande époque victorienne
  • style néo-gothique de l'apogée victorien
  • style néo-gothique à l'apogée de l'ère victorienne
  • néo-gothique de l'apogée victorien

Spanish

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Record 2 2002-10-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

An elaborately ornamental architectural style used in homes build in the middle 19th century in the Ohio and Mississippi river valleys.

OBS

So called for its use in homes of retired steamboat captains in imitation of the style of river steamboats.

CONT

The Wisteria House circa 1900. Originally this house had a wraparound porch with rounded edges and was in the Steamboat Gothic style, so called because the house looked rather like a steamboat on the Mississippi River

OBS

steamboat gothic: usually capital G.

Key term(s)
  • steam boat gothic style
  • steam-boat gothic
  • steam-boat gothic style

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
OBS

Traduction libre pour un style architectural en vogue au milieu du 19e siècle aux États-Unis notamment dans la région de la rivière Ohio et du fleuve Mississippi; les constructions rappelaient la forme des célèbres navires à vapeur circulant sur ces cours d'eau.

Spanish

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Record 3 1999-10-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

The style current in Europe from about the ninth century until the advent of Gothic [in the middle of the 12th century].

CONT

Romanesque architecture. ... Some experts place its origins in the C7, others in the C10: the former view includes CAROLINGIAN in Romanesque architecture, the latter places the beginning of Romanesque at the time of the rising of the Cluniac Order in France and the Ottoman Empire in Germany. The first view also includes Anglo-Saxon architecture, the second identifies the Romanesque in Britain with the Norman.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
DEF

(...) art européen des Xe, XIe et XIIe siècles. On le considérait comme une dérivation de l'art romain (...) il y a des éléments romains dans le roman, mais il y a aussi des éléments byzantins qui sont eux-mêmes une transformation du langage esthétique de Rome.

OBS

Division des styles : Ve au Xe siècle : Architecture latine ou préromane, se subdivisant en France, en architecture mérovingienne et carolingienne; XIe au XIIIe siècle : Architecture romane (...) On a distingué l'architecture romane en romane primordiale ou latine (IVe au XIe s.) et en romane secondaire (XIe et XIIe s.).

Spanish

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Record 4 1993-04-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Industrial Design
CONT

The standard for lettering was established in 1935 by the American National Standards Institute(ANSI)... The standardized lettering format was developed as a modified form of the Gothic letter font. The term font refers to a complete assortment of any one size and style of letters. The simplification of the Gothic letters resulted in a simplification of elements for each letter that became know as single-stroke Gothic lettering... The term single stroke comes from the fact that each letter is made up of a single straight or curved line element that makes it easy to draw and clear to read.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dessin industriel
CONT

Il existe plusieurs types d'écritures utilisées en dessin technique, dont la principale est l'écriture bâton, les autres étant à pleins et à déliés ou filiformes. Ces trois écritures peuvent être, soit en majuscule, soit en minuscule, l'une et l'autre pouvant être droite ou inclinée; l'inclinaison habituelle, pour la lettre bâton en particulier, est de 75 °; c'est cette inclinaison qui est recommandée par les normalisations belges et françaises.

CONT

Les titres et les écritures des dessins techniques se font en écriture bâton. On utilise soit des plumes à palette, soit des plumes tubulaires caractérisées par la largeur (...) du trait qu'elles permettent de tracer.

Spanish

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Record 5 1992-12-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
DEF

architectural style developed in Italy and various parts of West Europe between the roman and gothic styles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture

Spanish

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Record 6 1986-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
  • Symbols, Motifs and Ornaments (Arts)
CONT

Oak side table in the Gothic Revival style :... end supports terminate in two quarter round bracket feet, with incised Gothic arch carving on top and four applied half finial turnings on sides.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
  • Symboles, motifs et ornements (Arts)
OBS

Tourné : en opposition à sculpté, c'est-à-dire tourné au tour.

Spanish

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Record 7 1986-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
CONT

Oak meeting table in the Gothic Revival style :... End supports terminate in two quarter round bracket feet with incised gothic arch carving on tops and 4 applied half turnings on sides.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique Furniture (Museums and Heritage)
CONT

Glazed bookcase of solid oak in the Gothic Revival style, in Room 235 of the Privy Council Chamber... 5 shelves, edged with leatherette, scalloped and gold tooled dark red dust edging.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Meubles anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)
OBS

volant : Bande de tissu à un bord et formant une garniture rapportée. Volant froncé, plissé, plat.

Spanish

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Record 9 1986-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
  • Symbols, Motifs and Ornaments (Arts)
CONT

Oak side table in the Gothic Revival style in Room 235, Privy Council Chamber. Black leather top surrounded by oak edge with quarter oval nosing.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
  • Symboles, motifs et ornements (Arts)

Spanish

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Record 10 1986-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Styles
  • Symbols, Motifs and Ornaments (Arts)
CONT

Solid oak open arm chair in the Gothic Revival style.... upholstered in dark red leather, trimmed in leather gimp... Seat is plain and back is buttoned and tufted. Exposed frame with carved gothic type ornament... The crest rails is in the form of a straight pointed arch.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Styles en architecture
  • Symboles, motifs et ornements (Arts)
OBS

[Trouvé sous forme de croquis dans le] chapitre IX, Le Couvrement.

Spanish

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Record 11 1986-04-03

English

Subject field(s)
  • Antique Furniture (Museums and Heritage)
CONT

Oak meeting table in the Gothic Revival style, in Room 235 of the Privy Council Chamber... Apron contains 10 drawers with turned stick pulls and oak escutcheons.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Meubles anciens (Muséologie et Patrimoine)

Spanish

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Record 12 1985-09-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architectural Design
OBS

Systems of proportions.... the total composition of a wall must be harmonized with the composition of other planes in a three-dimensional whole.... The means of achieving this harmony differ in every style.... Medieval architects first used arithmetical modules based on the measurements of areas in the cathedral plan and, in the Gothic period, changed to a geometric system that employed chiefly the equilateral triangle and the square, figures that had symbolic and mystical values.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Conception architecturale
DEF

Tracé géométrique à base de triangles, ou observant des proportions calculées, employé par certains architectes pour la composition des plans et des façades.

Spanish

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