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Hace 4 días · Horace Walpole (born September 24, 1717, London, England—died March 2, 1797, London) was an English writer, connoisseur, and collector known for his novel The Castle of Otranto (1764), the first Gothic novel in the English language and one of the earliest literary horror stories.
- Horace Walpole
Walpole consciously cultivated letter writing as an art. His...
- Strawberry Hill
Strawberry Hill, Gothic Revival home of Horace Walpole,...
- Horace Walpole
Hace 4 días · The bust, originally gifted to Horace Walpole, the renowned writer, aesthete, and Whig politician, by British envoy to Italy Horace Mann, was last seen in public during the ‘Great Sale’ of 1842. The sale dispersed most of Walpole’s prized collection into private hands, leading to the bust’s disappearance for 182 years.
Hace 3 días · El descubrimiento del busto de Calígula ocurrió de manera fortuita, un hecho muy apropiado ya que fue precisamente Horace Walpole quien acuñó el término « serendipia », que significa hacer ...
Hace 2 días · Encuentran un busto de Calígula realizado hace 2.000 años cerca del Vesubio Durante mucho tiempo perteneció al político Horace Walpole, que pensaba que era un busto de bronce de Alejandro Magno.
Hace 3 días · Strawberry Hill, Gothic Revival home of Horace Walpole, located on the River Thames in Twickenham (now in Richmond upon Thames, an outer borough of London), Eng. Walpole bought the house as a cottage in 1747 and gradually transformed it into a medieval-style mansion that suggested in its atmosphere.
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5 de jun. de 2024 · Horace Walpole first applied the word ‘Gothic’ to a novel in the subtitle – ‘A Gothic Story’ – of The Castle of Otranto, published in 1764. When he used the word it meant something like ‘barbarous’, as well as ‘deriving from the Middle Ages’.
Hace 3 días · The first work to call itself Gothic was Horace Walpole 's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto, later subtitled "A Gothic Story". Subsequent 18th-century contributors included Clara Reeve, Ann Radcliffe, William Thomas Beckford, and Matthew Lewis.
