. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . RENAISSANCE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 1(J9 Decorative Spanish furniture reached its aj30gee during the reign of PHILIP THE SECOND, The gloomy devotee who is as exclusively associated in the Englishmind with the Armada and the Inquisition as his spouse, Mary ofEngland, was with popery; each were victims of their creed andconcepts. Mary, it is true, fiom her marriage when thirty-nine, wasalso a victim to love for the cold bigot who at twenty-seven marriedher as a move in his high chess game for the advancement of Spainand Catholicism
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . RENAISSANCE IN SPAIN AND PORTUGAL 1(J9 Decorative Spanish furniture reached its aj30gee during the reign of PHILIP THE SECOND, The gloomy devotee who is as exclusively associated in the Englishmind with the Armada and the Inquisition as his spouse, Mary ofEngland, was with popery; each were victims of their creed andconcepts. Mary, it is true, fiom her marriage when thirty-nine, wasalso a victim to love for the cold bigot who at twenty-seven marriedher as a move in his high chess game for the advancement of Spainand Catholicism; a crime which England, under Marys sister,Elizabeth, incidentally punished when they destroyed the Armada,and hastened Philips retirement to a royal conception of the monasticcell, whose furnishings have been so carefully TABLE. SALAMANCA CATHEDRAL. S2 CONTINENTAL CONTEMPORARIES OFLATE GOTHIC AND TUDOR. THENETHERLANDS AND GERMANY IN a more altruistic age—of which few signs are, it must be con-fessed, at present discernible—princes and people will perchance,in consideration of the troublethey cast upon posterity payingthem the compliment of trying tounderstand their history, refrain fromthe complicated changes involvedin yielding to national ambitions andevolutionary instincts. The many states now composingthe German Empire, together withFlanders, Holland the Netherlands,and Burgundy, have been speciallyculpable in this way. This is themore regrettable since the decorativefurniture of these lands was frequentlyin advance of both French and German work.
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