Sentences with phrase «batty langley»

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Lindfield makes the good point that criticism of Georgian Gothic as unscholarly was voiced in the 18th century as well as the 19th, not least by Walpole, and that the first person to make a distinction between true «Gothic» and modern «Gothick» was Batty Langley, whose invention in 1742 of the five Gothic «orders» has provoked the disdain of almost everyone who writes on the Gothic revival.

The book never engages with the arguments of a whole generation of modern scholars about the meanings of Gothic architecture in the 18th century — its use to advertise social status or national identity, for example, or the importance of Freemasonry to Batty Langley, or the way that the style was deployed by the coterie centred on Walpole as a signifier of heterodox sexuality.