1. Royal Conservatoire of Scotland Period styles course: Medieval styles

20. How the ‘Middle Ages’ got its name, and its bad press in the Renaissance…

21. Giorgio Vasari (1550) Lives of the most eminent architects, painters and sculptors: ‘there is another sort of architectural work called German which is very different in its proportions and its decorations from both the antique and the modern. Its characteristics are not adopted these days by any of the leading architects, who consider them monstrous and barbaric, wholly ignorant of any accepted ideas of sense or order… This manner of building was invented by the Goths, who put up structures in this way after all the ancient buildings had been destroyed and all the architects killed in the wars. It was they who made vaults with pointed arches… and then filed up the whole of Italy with their accursed buildings.’ Quoted in Brooks, Chris (1999) The Gothic revival London: Phaidon: 10

22. The Gothic Revival The Romantic period: yearning for the imaginary past, for faith and imagination Caspar David Friedrich City at Moonrise 1817

23. James Wyatt for William Beckford Fonthill Abbey 1796-1812 The west and north fronts of Fonthill Abbey in Wiltshire, England from John Rutter's Delineations of Fonthill (1823). http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fonthill_West_and_North_Fronts_edited.jpg

24. A.W. Pugin: 1840 Contrasts Gothic revival as moral crusade

25. Gothic revival as nationalistic style S.S. Teulon (1812-1873) Buxton memorial Fountain Millbank, City of Westminster erected to celebrate the passing of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833

26. Charles Barry and AWN Pugin 1835-68 The Palace of Westminster

27. Charles Barry and AWN Pugin The House of Lords, The Palace of Westminster (1835-68)

28. Illusionism can be both fantastical or totally realistic, mimicking everyday life. The action takes place as if it is in a totally self-contained world, behind the invisible ‘fourth wall’ Design and costumes are scrutinised so they all ‘hang together’ and don’t break the illusion, often using intensive period research to provide authentic detailing, even when we visit somewhere fictitious, such as Middle Earth