‘In Search of the origin of the Gothic: Thomas Pitt´s travel in Spain in 1760’: ‘En busca del origen del gótico: el viaje de Thomas Pitt por España en 1760’, Goya. Revista de Arte, published by the Fundación Lázaro Galdeano, No 292, 2003, 9-22.

The article examines the Observations in a Tour to Portugal & Spain, 1760, by John Earl of Strathmore & Thomas Pitt, Esq., in the context of the discussions about the origin of the Gothic in the eighteenth century. One of the most popular theories argued that the Gothic had an Arab origin, a...

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Main Author: Matilde Mateo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Department of Art History, University of Birmingham 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of Art Historiography
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Online Access:https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2016/12/mateo-translation1.pdf