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Gothic Architecture and Sexuality in the Circle of Horace Walpole shows that the Gothic style in architecture and the decorative arts and the tradition of medievalist research associated with Horace Walpole (1717–1797) and his circle cannot be understood independently of their own homoerotic culture. Centered around Walpole’s Gothic villa at Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, Walpole and his “Strawberry Committee” of male friends, designers, and dilettantes invigorated an extraordinary new mode of Gothic design and disseminated it in their own commissions at Old Windsor and Donnington Grove in Berkshire, Lee Priory in Kent, the Vyne in Hampshire, and other sites. Matthew M. Reeve argues that the new “third sex” of homoerotically inclined men and the new “modern styles” that they promoted—including the Gothic style and chinoiserie—were interrelated movements that shaped English modernity. The Gothic style offered the possibility of an alternate aesthetic and gendered order, a queer reversal of the dominant Palladian style of the period. Many of the houses built by Walpole and his circle were understood by commentators to be manifestations of a new queer aesthetic, and in describing them they offered the earliest critiques of what would be called a “queer architecture.” Exposing the role of sexual coteries in the shaping of eighteenth-century English architecture, this book offers a profound and eloquent revision to our understanding of the origins of the Gothic Revival and to medievalism itself. It will be welcomed by architectural historians as well as scholars of medievalism and specialists in queer studies.

Gothic revival (Architecture) --- Homosexuality and architecture --- Architecture and homosexuality --- Architecture --- Architecture, Gothic --- Gothic revival (Art) --- Architecture, Victorian --- History --- Walpole, Horace, --- Muralto, Onuphrio, --- Orford, Horace Walpole, --- Uolpol, Gorat︠s︡iĭ, --- Walpole, Horatio, --- H. W. --- W., H. --- Hōrēs Vālpōl, --- Vālpōl, Hōrēs, --- Marshall, William, --- Marshal, William, --- Homes and haunts --- Friends and associates. --- Art collections. --- Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) --- Art History. --- Gay and lesbian studies. --- History of Architecture. --- Medievalism. --- The Gothic Revival. --- third sex.

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Table of contents: Matthew M Reeve, Introduction, Mark Wilson Jones, The Origins of the Orders: Unity in Multiplicity, Guy Metraux, York University, Some Other Literary Villas of Roman Antiquity besides Pliny's, Judson Emerick, John Soane’ s Mistake: rereading the Tempietto del Clitunno, John Osborne, The Church of San Zeno at Bardolino, the "Carolingian Renaissance, " and the Sources for Simulated Architecture in ‘ Court School’ Manuscripts, Eric Fernie, Romanesque Historiography and the Classical Tradition, John Beldon Scott, Uses of the Past: Charles V’ s Roman Triumph and Its Legacy, Gauvin Alexander Bailey, Queen’ s University, Classicism in a Rococo World: Steadfastness and Compromise in Late Colonial South America, Sally Hickson, Girolamo Porro: Engraver and Publisher in Venice, Una D’ Elia, Acanthus Leaves and Ostrich Feathers: Claude Perrault, Tradition and Innovation in Architectural Language, Janina Knight, Queen’ s University, Two drawings by Giovanni Battista Montano in the Canadian Centre for Architecture, John Pinto, Ruins and Restitution: Eighteenth-Century Architects and Antiquity in the Bay of Naples Matthew M. Reeve, ‘ A Gothic Vatican of Greece and Rome’ : Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, and the Narratives of Gothic, Peter Coffman, The Gibbsian Tradition in Nova Scotia, Sebastian Schütze The Stadio dei Marmi in Rome: Inventing a Classical Stage for the Colossal Heroes of Fascist Italy, Phyllis Lambert, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Mies Klassizismus: Some Notes, Postlude: Pierre Du Prey, Reflections on Mentors.

Architecture --- History --- Histoire --- Du Prey, Pierre --- Festschriften --- Architecture [Classical ]