History of Photography and Photography Today

History of Photography

The First photograph was a Permanent Image. The inventor of the first type of photography was Joseph Nicephore Niepce, in which he used the camera obscura in order to burn a permanent image of the counryside at his Le Gras in the France Estate. The first permanent image was done onto a chemical-coated pewter plate. Joseph Nicephore Niepce calles this technique, which is his technique, heliography, which it means sun drawing. For this permanent image to happen, in black and white exposure, it takes eight hours to be processed and this fades significantly, but the imgae will still be seen on the plate nowadays.

The first photo of a person taken. In the year of 1839, a French painter and chemist Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre took a photograph of a scene in Paris of a street, a scene which he saw from his apartment window in which to take the photograph he used a camera obscura and the newly designed invention of the daguerreotype process. The meaning of saying the long exposure time is when moving objects looking liek pedestrians and carriages which don't appear in the photograph. But when a photograph was taken there seemed to be seen an unidentified person who this man stops for a shoeshine and he remains in the same place long enough that he was the first person to ever be seen on a photograph.

The year when Daguerreotype Era began. The process of the daguerreotype process became more popular because of the slots, a photo taken with the Daguerreotype process if the photograph taken by Ted V. Tamburo which was taken around the year 1850 from the second-story window in which there was a gaguerreotypist's shop which was located in the lower part of Manhattan at the bottom part of the Brooklyn Bridge.

Photography Nowadays

The first commercial

Digital camera which was commercial was the digital still camera. The first camera that was commercially available was the Kodak which was a professional digital camera which was made in the year 1991. The Nikon F-3 camera in its days was really expensive and was mostly shown and was recommended to professional photographers, this camera had a fitted body with a digital sensor. Within the passing five years, a lot of companies decided to make a more affordable digital camera models, and nowadays in the market place was completely defeated with the thousands of digital still                    cameras.


References:

• National Geographic Image Collection Book: Preview the New Photo Book. 2013. National Geographic Image Collection Book: Preview the New Photo Book. [ONLINE] Available at: http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/image-collection/. [Accessed 09 April 2013].
• A History of Digital Cameras | new-digitalcamera.com. 2013. A History of Digital Cameras | new-digitalcamera.com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://new-digitalcamera.com/a-history-of-digital-cameras/. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Surrealism Art

Surrealism Art

Surrealism is fully pushed into expressing the imagination of letting out the dreams, letting out the free of the conscious controlling of reason and convention. Surrealism gave out the anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada, but this was was easier in spiritual that the reality movement. The Dada, was by moving out of the theories on our state of being shown the reality, the most shown and obvious influential was the Freud's model of the subconscious. Andre'  Breton a surrealism artist was first found in Paris in the year of 1924, he was founded by his Manifesto of Srrealism, The principle of this was in order to resolve the previously conflicting conditions of dreams and reality into a full and absolute reality, which was a super-reality. The ends of this can be followed back to the French poets who are: Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire and Lautreamont, the final providing was the famous line that found the sum of the Surrealists' love for the inconfrous; "Beautiful as the chance encounter of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table." The most famour artists that were is the surrealism section were Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene' Magritte and Joan Miro'. Surrealism's collision on popular cultures can still be known today, mostly seen are in advertising.

Artists tackling Surrealism:

1. Marcel Duchamp
2. Georgia O'Keeffe
3. Max Ernst
4. Sir Henry Moore
5. Rene Magritte
6. Joan Miro
7. Salvador Dali
8. Pablo Picasso
9. Man Ray
10. Dorothea Tanning
11. MC Escher

Surrealism Art works:

Refrences:

• Surrealism and Visionary art: Svetoslav Stoyanov. 2013. Surrealism and Visionary art: Svetoslav Stoyanov. [ONLINE] Available at: http://surrealistisch.blogspot.com/2013/04/svetoslav-stoyanov.html. [Accessed 09 April 2013].
• Surrealism . 2013. Surrealism . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.artmovements.co.uk/surrealism.htm. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Contemporary Artist: John Alvin

John Alvin

John Henry Alvin was a known for Graphic Designing. Alvin used to create memorable pictures for movies, posters, billboards and also advertisements. John Alvin was born on the 24^th of November in 1948 in Hyannis in Massachusetts and died at the age of 59 years old on the 6th of February in the year of 2008 and he was found dead in his own home in Rhinebeck on a Wednesday in New York. Alvin died with the cause of a heart attack. John Henry Alvin’s parents’ names are Albert and Rena Troutman Alvin, in which both of his parents worked at the Army Officers. Alvin’s wife is Former Andrea Brown, and he met his wife in an Art School, in the back days he used to work with his wife and they had lots projects. Alvin wasn’t a lonely child; he had a sister called Suzanne Alvin in which they both worked together as well. John Alvin also had a daughter in which him and his wif

e Suzanne named her Farah Alvin, his daughter Farah was also in the industry, she was and actress, she lived in Manhattan. Alvin made his studies at the College of Design in Los Angeles, in California, he finished his studies and then afterwards he graduated in 1971. Alvin as a celebrity he was mostly mentioned and also had discussions about him about his movie posters. There are some of his mostly known and famous posters, which are; ET, The Little Mermaid, The Lion King, Lord of the Rings

and also including these is the Anniversary Posters of Star Wars. Alvin as an Artist designed over 130 film posters, in which he managed and took charge of these posters himself. He had a 35 year career. Although Alvin didn’t live a long life he made the best out of it. In his work John Alvin showed a lot of enthusiasm , as he gave his all into his works, in his posters there was shown a lot of emotions and his posters where graphically designed quite well. His posters were eye catching; many people loved his posters especially young children, in which young children were always attracted to these posters. John Alvin worked for projects of many artists, which include; Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Bla

ke Edwards, Mel Brooks and also Ridley Scott. Alvin when he had done his projects he gave his all in these projects, he gave his 100% in all of the working projects. A lot of well-known directors used to recommend and suggest John Henry Alvin to a lot, almost all of the Walt Disney Posters, the posters include; Aladdin, Beauty and The Beast, The Little Mermaid, Pinocchio, Snow-white and The Seven Dwarfs. Because Alvin’s works where out of this world and truly original, directors used to use Alvin as an adjective and by this his friends and colleagues used to call him Alvinesque.  Alvin back in the days, he used to sketch parts of scenes from the movies like; ‘The Vikings’ and ‘The Time Machine’. Alvin not long ago painted posters for series of Star Wars, Harry Potter, Lord of The Rings, and also including is Pirates of The Caribbean. Alvin Also did works for Anthony Goldschmidt, who is a director who works in Hollywood. This led him to make a huge project in which it led him to paint a poster for Mel Brooks’ comic ‘Blazing Saddles’. 

References:

• art-profiles.com Art & Technology > Graphic Designers's Albums - John Alvin. 2013. art-profiles.com Art & Technology > Graphic Designers's Albums - John Alvin. [ONLINE] Available at: http://art-profiles.com/art-and-technology/79-art-technology-graphic-designers/albums/197-john-alvin.html. [Accessed 17 May 2013].
• Kevin: John Henry Alvin, the Michael Jordan of movie posters | iowa graphic design. 2013. Kevin: John Henry Alvin, the Michael Jordan of movie posters | iowa graphic design. [ONLINE] Available at: http://iowagraphicdesign.wordpress.com/2013/03/05/kevin-john-henry-alvin-the-michael-jordan-of-movie-posters/. [Accessed 17 May 2013].
• John Alvin, Designer of Memorable Film Posters, Is Dead at 59 - New York Times. 2013. John Alvin, Designer of Memorable Film Posters, Is Dead at 59 - New York Times. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/movies/11alvin.html?_r=0. [Accessed 17 May 2013].

Exhibition Visit: Antonio Sciortino

Antonio Sciortino

Date when visited the Exhibition: 8th April,2013.
Name: Shades of white, German Circle.

Antonio Sciortino was born in Haz-Zebbug Malta, on the 25th of January 1879 and died on the 10th of August in 1947. Sciortino was a Maltese Sculptor which in his work he reflects a lot of artistic movements, which include Realism and Futurism, which also include the influences of Auguste Rodin. Sciotino died his studies and worked in Rome. Antonio Sciortino had developed an original style in which it drew the admiration of many and brought Sciotino commissions in Russia, Brazil and also in the USA. Sciortino was also a director in the Accademia Britannia in Rome, at the time of 1911 and ended in 1936, and from the year of the 1937 onwards, till he passed away he was a curator in the Malta Museum of Fine Arts. Sciortino from his childhood he showed a trend towards sculpture, and Sciortino's aunt Vittorine Sciortino encouraged him to follow his tendency. Another artist, Lazzaro Pisani who was an established painter in Malta, also showed Sciortino encouragement. The road that led him to be what he is, is with the encouragements he had from other people, this led him to enroll in the School of Art in Valletta in which he continued to study for two years. The strickland family helped  Sciortino to obtain a government grant attend of a course in Rome, in which at the age of twenty two Sciortino went to continue his studies in Art. 

In Rome, Sciortino continue to study in the Istituto Reale di Belle Arti, in which at that institute he continued to study for two more years, in which he studied engineering and monumental architecture. Right after he earned his diploma with distinctions, Sciortino himself opened up an art studio in via Margutta 33 in the centre of the Roman artistic tradition. In this studio Sciortino came up with the idea to free himself from the copying tradition and develope a more personal and unique style. The Philosopheris a group of work of artistic study in which Sciortino gained a reputation as an original and unique artist and he drew attention to many critics. The sculpture of Testa di Vecchio, was shown in an Exhibition of the name Promotrice di Roma. Along was the statue Studio di Donna, Sciortino removed the prevailinghabit of showing the female figure, with the way of being inspired by the Greeks. Sciortino at that time also worked on the Staute of Les Gavroches, this was the work that continued to move in good direction his reputation. He represented three poor children, the bronze statue was inspired by the Victor Hugo novel Les Miserables, which in the staute Sciortino shows the living life of three poor street urchins who are currently living in the streets of Paris at the time of the French Revolution in 1848. The statue Les Gavroches was than shipped and brought to Malta in 1907 and was mentioned to Sciortino's first official masterpiece. The mould of the statue is now found in Buckingham Palace, in which the maltese government gave to Princess Elisabeth as a gift in the official name of the Maltese people when she came to visit the Maletese island at the time of the 1951.


Some of the work that was exhibited:

Referencing:

• Photo(s) taken at the Exhibition.
• Antonio Sciortino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Antonio Sciortino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio_Sciortino. [Accessed 08 April 2013].

Museum Visit: The National Museum of Fine Arts

The National Museum of Fine Arts

Date when visited the Museum: 8th April, 2013.

In this Museum of Fine Arts, the busts are mostly made of out of Stone. In this Museum,the collection of art works on scene represents the major European artistic styles through a mixture of worldwide known names and Maltese artists. European artists are most likely to influence the Maltese art, this happening through the existence of the island leading to the development of a school in Malta. The best way of representing Italian Art is by sized collections of paintings by Southern Italian Artist Mattia Preti. Mattia Preti was born in 1613 and died in 1699. There are also other works from different years and schools which are shown in exhibitions, which in those include works by Venetian, Neapolitan and Bolognese artists. The influence for these works was influenced and generated by Rome, this was as an artistic centre of excellence in which this also features prominently in the collection through works by the Rome artists. Rome Artists such as: Guido Reni which was born in 1575 and died in 1642, another artist which is the Caravaggist Le Valentin which was born in 1594 and died in 1632, and other works which are of two outstanding Maltese names. Works of sculptors which Melchiorre Cafa who was born in 1636 and died in 1667, and Antonio Sciortino who was born in 1879 and died in 1947. In this collection there is also shown works from Dutch, French and British art. 

There are themes such as landscapes and portraiture which are also represented in the works from different periods and styles. The Grand Harbour and its environs show the subject of watercolor by the artist Joseph Mallard William Turner who was born in 1775 and died on 1851. Other works featuring knights and high-ranking member of the order of St.John and also shown on display are other personalities. In the Museum there are other attractions which include displays of the Maltese furniture and Silver, there is also shown South Italian decorated pharmacy jars, which are shown in different shapes and sizes. In the Museum there is also shown features changing exhibition of contemporary art, which are mainly done by the Maltese and foreign artists. 

Works shown in The National Museum of Fine Arts:

Mara Eleganti Hafna

Very Elegant Woman

Artist: Antonio Sciortino (1879-1947)

Ufficjal Mediku

Medical Officer

Artist:  George Borg (1906-1983)

Ragel bl-Uniformi

Man in Uniform

Artist: Vincent Apap (1909-2003)

Ragel  Eleganti

Man in Elegant Suit

Artist: Vincent Apap (1909-2003)

Tfajla

Young Girl

Artist: Joseph Maria Genuis (1934-1970)

Ragel bl-Ingravata

Man with Tie

Artist: Vincent Apap (1909-2003)

Qassis
Priest
Artist: George Borg (1906-1983)

Referencing: 

• Photo(s) taken at the Museum.
• The National Museum of Fine Arts Brochure. 
•  Wednesdays@south street at National Museum of Fine Arts - Gozo News.Com. 2013. Wednesdays@south street at National Museum of Fine Arts - Gozo News.Com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://gozonews.com/8574/wednesdayssouth-street-at-national-museum-of-fine-arts/. [Accessed 08 April 2013].

Exhibition Visit: Abstracts by Alfred Chircop

Abstract Paintings by Alfred Chircop

Date when visited the Exhibition: 8th April, 2013

Alfred Chircop studied at the Malta School of Art, the Accademia Pietro Vannucci in Perugia, Bath Academy of Art at Corsham UK and also in the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Chircop's work has made a gradually remark in the past years, either he painted figurative or abstract, he has showed his talent of Art in the multiples of techniques and media he showed in his drawings, paintings, watercolours etching and aquatints, linocuts, pen, wash and monoprints. Chircop, since 1960 he has showed multiple one-man exhibitions all over Malta and also abroad. Chircop has also participated in many collective exhibitions in Malta and also abroad, in which people from local and foreign critics had highly acclaimed. As a successful artist, Alfred Chircop has also taught at various levels in Art schools, exercising huge ability in stimulating successful awareness and also creativity at Primary, Secondary, sixth form and also at the faculty of Architecture in Malta in which Chircop spent his last few years as a career teacher at the Senior Lecturer, teaching visual education and design. Chircop at the year 1990 was awarded with the Gold Medal Premio Citta di Valletta and also in 1995 Chircop won the 1st Prize in the Painting section and also 1st Prize in the Watercolour section in the 1st Malta International Biennale. Chircop in the year 1998 was also honoured with the National Order of Merit, M.O.M. in acknowledging his payment to Art in Malta. 
On the day of when Malta joined the E.U. in 2004, Chircop had been invited by
the Europe Council in order to represent Malta with the One-Man exhibition with his paintings, which this exhibition then traveled to Paris, which he entered as a guest artist in which he represented Malta. At the same time of year he participated in the Salon International of the City of La Rochelle in France where Chircop was awarded the Grand Prix and the Grand Medal of the Cityof La Rochelle, in which Chircop was the only artist who was very honoured. Chircop was awarded the award of the Prix Groupama at the Salon International de Nantes. Chircop had also exhibition in Frechen Town Hall in Germany, in Bremen, and also at Kurfursterdam 131, Berlin. Chircop in 2005, also had a one-man exhibition in Berlin at the so called Palace Hotel in the Centre of the city. Chircop represented Malta in the Hope and Optimism Portfolio, which was a Global Art project in which his workwas at the Heynits Castle Art Centre, Namibia. Other works of Chircop are also found in private and public collection areas all over Malta and also abroad.

Some of the paintings that were exhibited:

References:

• Photo(s) taken at the exhibition.
• Alfred Chircop. 2013. Alfred Chircop. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.alfredchircop.com/about.html. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

William Morris

William Morris

William Morris was born on the 24^th of March 1834 and died on the 3^rd of October 1896. Morris was an English textile Designer, artist writer and libertarian socialist, which is associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and with the English Arts and Crafts Movement. Morris than started a firm partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and also the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which these artists helped influence the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20^th century. Morris as an author, an illustrator and medievalist, Morris helped establish the modern fantasy genre, and was a big influence on postwar authors including John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. Tolkien was also a huge contributor in reviving the traditional textile’s art work and the methods of production, and the ones who figured out the society for the protection of Ancient Buildings, and now a created element in the protection of the historic buildings in the UK. William Morris used to write and publish poetry, fiction and translationsof ancient and medieval texts throughout Morris’ life. Some of his best works: The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems which was published in 1858, The Earthly Paradise which was published in 1868 till 1870, A Dream of John Ball which was published in 1888, The Utopian News from Nowhere which was published in 1890, and another piece of work is the fantasy romance The Well at the World’s End which was published in 1896. Morris was a very important human being in the emergence of socialism in Britain, founding the socialist League in  1884, but there was a breaking point with the organization over the goals and methods by the end of the decade. Morris devoted most of his life to the Kelmscott Press, which he had founded in 1891. Kelmscott was into the publishing of limited edition, illuminated style print books. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer is considered and known as a masterpiece of book design, this if from the 1896 Kelmscott edition.

William Morris was a well-known man, who his accomplishments were legion. In his life Morris was an accomplished businessman, a socialist, a conservator of historic and ancient buildings, he was also a designer of tiles, tapestries, carpets, linoleum, stained glass and furniture. Morris nowadays is mostly known as a designer of wallpaper and fabric and by extension, of notecards, gift wrap, scarves and more. Morris’ wallpaper and fabric designs has never been out of production and sales, he produced his first wallpaper design in 1864. Morris’ designs were to be used any time of the year because there weren’t any season so they could be used. His designs are based on natural forms and patterns, so many people were very interested in Morris’ wallpaper and fabric designs, his designs had a very nice appeal, and many use his designed wallpaper and fabric in modern house use.

References:

• William Morris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. William Morris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morris. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• William Morris Wallpaper & Fabrics - . 2013. William Morris Wallpaper & Fabrics - . [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.william-morris.com/. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• The Textile Blog: Bullerswood Carpet by William Morris. 2013. The Textile Blog: Bullerswood Carpet by William Morris. [ONLINE] Available at: http://thetextileblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/bullerswood-carpet-by-william-morris.html. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• William Morris | The Beauty of Life Lecture | Broached Blog. 2013. William Morris | The Beauty of Life Lecture | Broached Blog. [ONLINE] Available at: http://broachedblog.com/william-morris-the-beauty-of-life-lecture/. [Accessed 03 April 2013].

The Crystal Palace by Joseph Paxton

The Crystal Palace

The Great Exhibition which was exhibited in the 1851s was the most viewed exhibition of the exhibition. As the Crystal Palace was only open for just five months, in a short period of time, around six million people visited the Crystal Palace, this happened all thanks to the railways. People visited not only just to wonder at the fabulous array of beautiful objects from around the world, but to have a closer look of the building itself. With the amount of glass the crystal palace has, it isn’t surprising that the Crystal Palace designer Joseph Paxton was the best known for his conservatory designs. This Crystal Palace was also a greenhouse on an unknown scale, a cathedral of glass. Parts and sections of the Crystal Palace were named after cathedral architecture; the cross wings part was called transepts. The transepts part was completely prefabricated; its glass and cast iron were made in a factory in the Midlands and the North. The designs of the Crystal Palace were approved in less than eleven months and so the building was completed, the Crystal Palace is 560 meters long, 120 meters wide and 33 meters high.

The Crystal Palace has been re-erected at Sydenham, and was used to a show a variety of Ancient and exotic art, also showing botanical specimens from all around the world. As it was no longer in Hyde Park, it was we still easy to access by railway; this became a popular day trip destination, as the print making designs portray.

Joseph Paxton

Joseph Paxton used to be an English Gardener, designer, writer and creator of most of the buildings of the Victoria’s reign in the Crystal Palace. Paxton was born on the 3^rd of August 1803 in Bedfordshire, into a farming family. Paxton had multiple gardening jobs till in 1823 he started working at Chiswick Gardens which was granted by the Horticultural Society from the Duke of Devonshire. The duke was very impressed with Paxton’s work, to this duke appointed Paxton to be the Head Gardener at Chatsworth House, which was the Devonshire family’s big country house in Devonshire. Paxton designed gardens, fountains, a model village and an arboretum at Chatsworth House. Paxton also built a conservatory, which was also known as the Great Conservatory and a lily, which was designed for a huge lily with a design, which was design based on the leaves of the plant. Paxton in the end got married to the Chatsworth’s Housekeeper’s niece, which she was named Sarah Bown. Paxton’s fame started with the Great Exhibition in 1851. Paxton had made 245 plans for the main exhibition but all of his plans were being examined and rejected. While Paxton was visiting London at that time he heard about the difficulties. After a few days have passed he later on delivered a design, which was a vastly magnified version of his lily house at Chatsworth. To be done it was cheap, simple to erect and to be removed and could be built very quickly. Its novelty was its revolutionary, modular, prefabricated design and the extensive use of glass. The crystal Palace to be built took about 2,000 men and a period of eight months construction work.

Although there was a widespread of cynicism with press and public, the great exhibition still opened up on May 1851 and it was a huge success. In October, Paxton was knighted by Victoria. As soon as the Exhibition finished, the Crystal Palace was dismantled in Sydenham in South London, where it was still there until the Crystal Palace burnt down in 1936. Paxton although the Crystal Palace had burnt down he still stayed as Head Gardener at Chatsworth, but that wasn’t his only project, aside he had multiple other projects,; working on the layout of the public parks, helping with suggested improvements for the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew and designing a country house, Mentmore Towers for Baron Mayer de Rothschild. Paxton than became a rich wealthy man through successful speculations in the booming railway industry and later Paxton died on the 8^th of June in 1865 in Sydenham.

References:

• The Crystal Palace. 2013. The Crystal Palace. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.architecture.com/HowWeBuiltBritain/HistoricalPeriods/Victorian/LeisureAndPleasure/TheCrystalPalace.aspx. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• BBC - History - Historic Figures: Joseph Paxton (1803 - 1865). 2013. BBC - History - Historic Figures: Joseph Paxton (1803 - 1865). [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/paxton_joseph.shtml. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• Joseph Paxton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 2013. Joseph Paxton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. [ONLINE] Available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Paxton. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• The Great Stove, Chatsworth. 2013. The Great Stove, Chatsworth. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/iron/21b.html. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
•  Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Andrew Haswell Green Boss Tweed. 2013. Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins Andrew Haswell Green Boss Tweed. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.copyrightexpired.com/hawkins/nyc/Benjamin_Waterhouse_Hawkins.html. [Accessed 03 April 2013].

Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival

One the most influential style in the 19^th century was the Gothic Revival. The designs that were put in the gothic revival were based on pattern and form that were used in the middle Ages. Studies show that they were combin

ed with a romantic look of the medieval chivalry and romance. There was a huge range of religious, civic and domestic buildings that were built and furnished with the gothic revival style, which developed from the 1830 to the 1900.

The gothic buildings of the 12^th to the 16^th century were a huge inspirational source to the designers of the 19^th century. Elements of Architecture like: arches, steep-sloping roofs and decorative tracery were practical to a huge range of gothic revival objects. Some of the pieces of the architectural look like small, miniature buildings. Medieval chivalry showed a path into incorporation into designs of heraldic motifs that were found in coats of arms, this was held in the 19^th century interest. Painted scenes on furniture were a hallmark of the Gothic Revival style. In the last half of the 19^th century there was an amusement for historical costumes, more preferably of the middle ages. In the half of the 19^th century, fancy dress events and parties were very popular. The gothic script of the medieval times was often included in the designs of the Gothic Revival objects.

People who took part in the making of the Gothic revival were: Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, John Ruskin and William Burges. In the gothic revival Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin who was born in the 1812s and died in the 1852 was the writer, John Ruskin who was born in the 1819s and died in the 1900s was the influential art critic and William Burges who was born in the 1827s and died in the 1881s was the most original and exuberant designer of the 19^th century. 

References: 

• Style Guide: Gothic Revival - Victoria and Albert Museum. 2013. Style Guide: Gothic Revival - Victoria and Albert Museum. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/s/style-guide-gothic-revival/. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• Vermont Architecture Gothic Revival – Old Stone House Museum. 2013. Vermont Architecture Gothic Revival – Old Stone House Museum. [ONLINE] Available at: http://oldstonehousemuseum.org/vermont-architecture/gothic-revival-2. [Accessed 03 April 2013].
• Vermont Architecture Gothic Revival – Old Stone House Museum. 2013. Vermont Architecture Gothic Revival – Old Stone House Museum. [ONLINE] Available at: http://oldstonehousemuseum.org/vermont-architecture/gothic-revival-2. [Accessed 03 April 2013].