Visiting The National Gallery Of Art In Dc
Two years earlier than completion, its infamous “pepperpot” elevation appeared on the frontispiece of Contrasts , an influential tract by the Gothicist A. W. N. Pugin, for example of the degeneracy of the classical fashion. Even William IV thought the constructing a “nasty little pokey gap”, while William Makepeace Thackeray called it “somewhat gin store of a constructing”. The twentieth-century architectural historian Sir John Summerson echoed these early criticisms when he in contrast the association of a dome and two diminutive turrets on the roofline to “the clock and vases on a mantelpiece, only much less useful”. Sir Charles Barry’s …