Ralph Adams Cram
150 years ago, on the 16th of December 1863 – Ralph Adams Cram was born in Hampton Falls (New Hampshire), an architect, art theorist and a political thinker, a representative of the "Gothic revival" (Gothic Revival Style) in architecture which produced numerous works of both sacred (including amongst others; the Anglican cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York) and secular art ; a catholic Anglican and a “pessimistic conservative", a critic of democracy ("rule of mediocrity") also postulated for the transformation of the American republic into an elective constitutional monarchy. He died in 1942.
prof. Jacek Bartyzel
translated by Arek Jakubczyk
Kategoria: Reactionary Diary
