Abbot Suger

Abbot Suger

male, deceased (1151)
Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire, Louis VII, aquitaine, Crusade, abbot, French…Gothicarchitecture
Suger (c. 1081 - January 13, 1151) was one of the last French abbot-statesmen, a historian and the influential first patron of Gothic architecture....
Thomas Rickman

Thomas Rickman

male, deceased (1841)
From Maidenhead, Gothicarchitecture, Gothic Revival, Smith's Panorama of Arts and Sciences, Maidenhead, Berkshire, Perpendicular English…Norman architecture, gothic
Thomas Rickman (June 8, 1776 - January 4, 1841), was an English architect who was a major figure in the Gothic Revival. He was born at Maidenhead,...
Ralph Adams Cram

Ralph Adams Cram

male, deceased (1942)
phillips exeter academy, christmas eve, Williams College, Unitarian, United States Military Academy, Wheaton College…gothic, Gothicarchitecture, Collegiate Gothic
Ralph Adams Cram, (December_16, 1863 - September_22, 1942), was an important American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often...
Villard de Honnecourt

Villard de Honnecourt

male
engineer, Gothicarchitecture, Notre-Dame de Reims, Picardy, escapement, Notre-Dame of Laon…High Gothic architecture, architecture
Villard de Honnecourt lived in 13th century France and may have been an itinerant master-builder of Picardy in northern France. His fame rests...
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin

male, deceased (1852)
Christ's Hospital Old Blue, Erdington Abbey, St Chad's Cathedral, St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham, Examples of Gothic Architecture, Specimens of Gothic Architecture…True Principles of Christian Architecture, Gothic Revival, Gothicarchitecture
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (March 1, 1812-September 14, 1852) was an English architect, designer and theorist of design now best remembered for...
Paul Frankl

Paul Frankl

male, deceased (1996)
From Prague, halle, princeton, art history, gothic, Renaissance…architecture, Gothicarchitecture
Paul Frankl was a German art historian. After starting with architecture, Frankl studied art history in Munich. He earned his Ph.D. in 1910 and...
Historical Novel

Historical Novel

male
waverley, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Sir Walter Scott, 14th-century, Luo Guanzhong, Romantics…Gothicarchitecture
A historical novel is a novel in which the story is set among historical events, or more generally, in which the time of the action predates the...

John Henry Parker

male, deceased (1884)
architecture, Archaeology of Rome, Oxford Pocket Classics, Glossary of Architecture, Medieval Architecture of Chester, Domestic Architecture of the Middle Ages…Introduction to the Study of Gothic Architecture, Gothic Revival, Gothicarchitecture, architecture writer
John Henry Parker (March 1, 1806 - January 31, 1884), English writer on architecture was the son of a London merchant. He was educated at Manor...

John Brown

male
extant, Norman architecture, Lowestoft, Stamford, Lincolnshire, Norfolk, England, Fakenham…Carpenter's Gothic style, Gothicarchitecture
John Brown was a 19th-century architect in Norwich, in the county of Norfolk, England. He is best known for his churches, especially cathedrals. He...
George Edmund Street

George Edmund Street

male, deceased (1881)
buried at Westminster Abbey, Red House, Woodford, English, From Essex, Gothicarchitecture…The Gothic Architecture of Spain
George Edmund Street (20 June 1824 - 18 December 1881), English architect, was born at Woodford in Essex. He was the third son of Thomas Street,...