The decorative periods . ck to adopt Romanmotifs, not in the Sixteenth Century spirit, however, but in amanner acceptable to a public saturated with the Louis XVIperiod of design. Thus, we find in the French periods of 1790,and in the contemporary English periods,the Renaissance character with the gro-tesque, the chimerical and the legendaryeliminated and the whole subjugated to asimpler decorative feeling, dainty in line,delicate in treatment, excepting when ap-plied to the Empire school, and even thenits severity was simple and freed of its bur-dens of elaborateness. It is important to reali
The decorative periods . ck to adopt Romanmotifs, not in the Sixteenth Century spirit, however, but in amanner acceptable to a public saturated with the Louis XVIperiod of design. Thus, we find in the French periods of 1790,and in the contemporary English periods,the Renaissance character with the gro-tesque, the chimerical and the legendaryeliminated and the whole subjugated to asimpler decorative feeling, dainty in line,delicate in treatment, excepting when ap-plied to the Empire school, and even thenits severity was simple and freed of its bur-dens of elaborateness. It is important to realize that Renais-sance influences, while directly Italian,became superimposed upon a mind not onlymoulded to the traditional Gothic, but in-fluenced by the Saracenic, the Persian andthe Indian, for it must be recalled thatVenetian and Sicilian, in fact, all Italiancraftsmanship, had been moulded to thesentiment of Persia and India, with whichFar Eastern countries lower Italy was inconstant intercourse. The Saracens brought. RENAISSANCE 128 The Decorative Periods also Byzantine influences to Italy, and at the time of the Renais-sance movement we have this Eastern feeling strong in Italy. The English Renaissance, strictly speaking, was the Renais-sance of John of Padua (1500), who, under the patronage ofHenry VIII, practised the Renaissance in England. But theRenaissance characteristics which have lasted are the work ofmen like Grinling Gibbons and Sir Christopher Wren, who,nearly two hundred years afterwards, introduced that form ofclassicism which is largely Renaissance, but termed EarlyGeorgian to distinguish it from the more simple renderings ofthe brothers Adam in the Late Georgian.
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