The building started life as a farm house, built in a gothic style by the Foxall family between 1810 and 1820.
Then, as the Renaissance movement began to take root in Europe, Continental Humanist writers began to revive Carolingian lettering, a form of script predating the Gothic style.
The first gallery opens with a massive 1st century A.D. marble Roman vessel carved with Bacchic dancers, surrounded by "the legacy of the fathers" French and Italian precursors of the Renaissance, including Nicola Pisano and his son Giovanni, who blended French Gothic style with elements of Roman art gleaned from ancient sarcophagi.
Only specialists could decode the then-standard Gothic script style, because only specialists needed to do so.
Now, when I say he tattooed his name over her face, we're talking full cheek-to-cheek, gothic-style, see-it-from-space lettering.
Restoration work on the Gothic-style buildings began in 1947 and continues today.
Mister Cartoon also uses a gothic lettering style called Old English in Chicano street culture, the typeface is a symbol of authority and credibility.
Chesnutt has recorded over fifteen albums and is known for his "Southern Gothic" storytelling style.
The 14-room stucco cottage, built in an Early Gothic Revival architectural style, was preferred over the often stifling heat and humidity of the White House.
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Mr. Thomas attended Yale University, a campus that was rebuilt in a gothic-revival style in the 1930s, for both his undergraduate years and for law school.
Gothic lettering is famous for its complex and ornate style, which can be extremely confusing to the uninitiated.
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