Renaissance Revival

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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.

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How to use Renaissance Revival in a sentence

It is a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival styles of Spanish architecture.
Blogging my first overseas vacation since COVID|Peter Rosenstein|October 19, 2021|Washington Blade
Since then, Jamshed, like much of the country he once honored in song, has gone through a religious revival.
Disco Mullah Blasphemy Row Highlights Pakistan’s Hypocrisy|Shaheen Pasha|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Isaacs grew up in Britain, first Liverpool, then London, during a period of economic turmoil and conservative revival.
After The Fall: Introducing The Anti-Villain|Rich Goldstein|December 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Lisa Kudrow - The Comeback How—HOW—is Lisa Kudrow not a nominee for the revival of The Comeback?
15 Enraging Golden Globe TV Snubs and Surprises: Amy Poehler, 'Mad Men' & More|Kevin Fallon|December 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Nazi t-shirts are also very popular in Thailand, which is one step away from staging a revival of Springtime For Hitler.
Hitler is Huge in Thailand: Chicken Joints, T-Shirts, and A Govt.-Issued Propaganda Video|Marlow Stern|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Yet, in pursuit of that ‘great revival of art,’ his anxiety, depression, and overall health began to deteriorate.
Decoding Vincent Van Gogh’s Tempestuous, Fragile Mind|Nick Mafi|December 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
However great the power of Revival, there is no memory unless there was a First Impression.
Assimilative Memory|Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
The first and most prominent thing which strikes an observer, is, the undoubted general revival of trade and commerce.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
The organ is inclosed in a case designed by Mr. Arthur Hill after old renaissance examples.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building|George Laing Miller
The object and the means were the revival of the nautical labourer of twenty years before.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
Memory, which implies a former conscious experience, its retention, revival and recognition.
Gospel Philosophy|J. H. Ward