Renaissance Revival

noun

1. a mid-Victorian architectural style adapting the classical forms of 15th- and 16th-century Italian architecture, especially palace architecture, usually characterized by blocklike massing, with refined classicized decorative detail around regularly organized windows.

Example Sentences

I stopped by my local library recently — the Lincoln Heights Branch, housed in the beautiful Italian Renaissance Revival building funded by Andrew Carnegie in 1916 — which was filled with older Angelenos quietly reading or on the computer.

From Los Angeles Times

After the original Jenners building was destroyed by a fire in 1892, architect William Hamilton Beattie designed the current building on Princes Street in the Victorian renaissance revival style.

From BBC

The focal point was the baronial great hall, two stories in height and an essentially Renaissance Revival setting, with a towering stained-glass window of a peacock in a garden by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

From Seattle Times

His first work to sell at auction, “Linden Blvd Jazz Radio” — depicting the facade of a Brooklyn French Renaissance Revival building that nods to Edward Hopper’s “Early Sunday Morning” — sold at Phillips in 2021 for $163,800, more than triple the high estimate.

From New York Times

Designed by Seattle architects Woodruff Somerville and Joseph Cote in French Renaissance Revival style while hewing to Carnegie’s prescriptions, the elegant structure has more than held its own, nominated to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982 and designated a Seattle landmark in 2001.

From Seattle Times