The decorative periods . ITALIAN RENAISSANCE THE RENAISSANCE CHARACTERISTICS. U NTiL the Student has fully graspedthe significance of classic orna-ment he will be always confused instudying the Renaissance. The Re-naissance period was the revival periodin Italy, 1400; in France, 1500; inEngland, 1500 ; in Flanders, 1507 ; inGermany, 1550. The lingering Gothicand Mediaeval materially affected andinfluenced all effort at Revival. Roman motifs were seldom adopt-ed in their purity, or in a mannerconsistent with their symbolic sig-nificance, but were regarded princi-pally for their pictorial value,
The decorative periods . ITALIAN RENAISSANCE THE RENAISSANCE CHARACTERISTICS. U NTiL the Student has fully graspedthe significance of classic orna-ment he will be always confused instudying the Renaissance. The Re-naissance period was the revival periodin Italy, 1400; in France, 1500; inEngland, 1500 ; in Flanders, 1507 ; inGermany, 1550. The lingering Gothicand Mediaeval materially affected andinfluenced all effort at Revival. Roman motifs were seldom adopt-ed in their purity, or in a mannerconsistent with their symbolic sig-nificance, but were regarded princi-pally for their pictorial value, and sacred and secular motifs werecombined indiscriminately and frequently merged upon a Me-dixval and Gothic background ; this fact must be borne in Renaissance followed the Romanesque and Gothic periods,and bore the imprint of the years of Mediaval influence. The Classic period was full of floral and animal forms—fruittied in bunches with leaves and flowers, festoons with flowingribbons, rosettes, candelabras, skulls of sacrificial animals, tri-pods, sacred i
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