Practical Woodcarving by Eleanor Rowe

Author:Eleanor Rowe
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486154190
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Finial from the Bishop’s Throne, Exeter Cathedral. Fourteenth Century.

CLASSIFICATION OF ENGLISH STYLES FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE TWELFTH TO THE EARLY NINETEENTH CENTURY. (Dates only approximate ; included for general guidance.)

GOTHIC.

RENASCENCE.

THE EARLY PERIOD, 1500 to 1640. 1500 to 1550. The influence of the imported Italian workmen during the reign of Henry VIII.

Elizabethan, 1550 to 1600. The influence of the German and Flemish workmen who sought shelter in this country.

Jacobean, 1600 to 1640.

THE LATE PERIOD, 1640 to 1820. Transitional, 1640 to 1660. The influence of Inigo Jones (1573-1653).

Late Stuart and Queen Anne, 1660 to 1720. The influence of Wren (1648-1720).

The influence of the French refugees who sought shelter here after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1683.

The Dutch influence under William and Mary.

Georgian, 1720 to 1760. The influence of Sir William Chambers (1726-1796) and other Palladian Architects.

Interludes of Rococo and Chinoiséne influence.

Adam, 1760 to 1790. The influence of the brothers Adam (Robert, 1728-1792).

The influence of the later French styles.

Regency, 1790 to 1820. The Greek Revival, with later eclecticism.

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