Renaissance Revival

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Renaissance Revival

  1. (architecture) Synonym of Neo-Renaissance
    • 2008, Helen Sheumaker, Shirley Teresa Wajda, editors, Material Culture in America, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 390:
      A style based on the architecture of sixteenth-century Italy and France (which, in turn, was based on the styles of ancient Rome and Greece), the Renaissance Revival in the United States influenced architecture and the decorative arts from the mid-nineteenth century through the first decade of the twentieth century.
    • 2017, Eyewitness Travel Guide Boston, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, →ISBN, page 34:
      Two styles of the late 19th century, Renaissance Revival and Richardsonian Romanesque, remained influential through World War I.

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