Gothic architecture, sexuality, and license at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill

• Autores: Matthew M. Reeve
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 95, Nº 3, 2013, págs. 411-439
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • From 1747 Horace Walpole and a close circle of male friends and associates designed, decorated, and furnished Strawberry Hill, the remarkable neo-Gothic villa in Twickenham, a fashionable suburb of London. An examination of the role of Walpole’s sexuality in the design and reception of the house and its furnishings, following the lead of recent studies in literature, historiography, and the history of sexuality, reveals the interrelations between the revival of the Gothic as one of the “modern styles” of eighteenth-century architecture and fundamental changes in human sexuality characterized by the rise of a “third sex.”