It was a fallacy of Victorian art history — one much promoted by Ruskin and by the architect and Gothic Revival apologist, A. W. N. Pugin — that Gothic architecture was a uniquely Christian style. The corollary was that Renaissance architecture, based as it is on Roman architecture, was fundamentally a pagan style. Ruskin was aware that early Christian architecture in the West was also Roman in style, and that Roman was one of the many styles that contributed to Gothic. His sense of the symbolic resonances of Gothic in church architecture seems to have blinded him to the implications of these facts.