Architectural model of staircase. Neo-Gothic, early 19th century.

Architectural model of staircase. Neo-Gothic, early 19th century.
Pulpit.
Wood.
Measurements: 138 x 80 x 50 cm.

Scale recreation of a church pulpit of neo-Gothic style, probably of British origin and Victorian period. It consists of a double staircase and has been carved with great precision in each of its details: the turned balusters, the tribune, the parapet, the crenellated entablature, the lobed crests and the stylized pinnacles.

Neo-Gothic (also known as Victorian Gothic in Anglo-Saxon countries, or Gothic Revival) was a historicist artistic movement, mainly architectural and decorative, which began around the middle of the 18th century in the United Kingdom. Its momentum grew in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, when scholars of the various Gothic periods attempted to revive medieval Gothic architecture, in contrast to the neoclassical styles of the time. As historicist architecture, it was intended to be a reworking of the architectural language of medieval Gothic art with more or less genuine forms, including decorative patterns, finishes, the use of lancet windows and flared arches. By the mid-19th century, it had established itself as the preeminent architectural style in the Western world.