This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... fact that painters first mastered the Renaissance forms and introduced them into Germany, and thus by a roundabout way led architecture and decoration to accept Renaissance motifs, gave to German Renaissance its bizarre character. Only at the dose of the Renaissance century and at the beginning of the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... fact that painters first mastered the Renaissance forms and introduced them into Germany, and thus by a roundabout way led architecture and decoration to accept Renaissance motifs, gave to German Renaissance its bizarre character. Only at the dose of the Renaissance century and at the beginning of the Seventeenth Century, when regular personal intercourse began between German masters in Italy and Italian masters in Germany, and the principal works on Italian architecture became generally known in Germany, did the Germans become conscious of what they had neglected. The character of the German Renaissance manifests itself in architectural details based on the North Italian Renaissance in the employment of the ancient orders. Columns, piers and entablatures of the different styles are always richlydecorated, and balustrades are particularly in favor The leg and pedestal details illustrated on this page are taken from excel-lent Italian, French, Flemish and English Sixteenth Century work. No. i, 2, 3,4,5,13, 15 are Italian or Flemish;No. 6, 7, 10, n, 12, 14 are unquestion-ably Italian; 8 and 9 are authentic German, although apparently Italian; 5, 6 and 7 have all the massive appearance of the Dutch or Early English. ENGLISH RENAISSANCE--ELIZABETHAN Elizabethan was a term applied to the character of English Renaissance that nourished during Queen Elizabeth'sreign, 1558-1603. The English Renaissance began in 1509, under Henry VIII, whose reign continued to 1547. It immediately followed Perpendicular or Florid Gothic. The Renaissance moveThe Great Bed Of Ware ment swept all Europe and ELIZABETHAN.. j j. T-1 j was introduced into England by the Italian architect John of Padua, under the patronage of Henry VIII, at a time contemporary with a similar...
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