. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . ds, England adoptedHolbein and Van Dyck, borrowed Rubens,and produced Inigo Jones. Indeed, thedefinite abandonment of the last shreds ofGothic, and the real practice of ItalianRenaissance, commenced only with InigoJones—the first of the England traveller-architects,—reached its highest point withSir Christopher Wren and his school, andunderwent an equally slow process of decay, inmatters architectural, during the eighteenthcentury. Inigo Jones, on his return fromItaly and the Danish Court in 1605, wasfirst commissioned to desig

---

. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . ds, England adoptedHolbein and Van Dyck, borrowed Rubens,and produced Inigo Jones. Indeed, thedefinite abandonment of the last shreds ofGothic, and the real practice of ItalianRenaissance, commenced only with InigoJones—the first of the England traveller-architects,—reached its highest point withSir Christopher Wren and his school, andunderwent an equally slow process of decay, inmatters architectural, during the eighteenthcentury. Inigo Jones, on his return fromItaly and the Danish Court in 1605, wasfirst commissioned to design decorations formasques and pageants. The portion remaining—the BanquetingHall—increases our regret that he was pre-vented by the Puritans and the Civil Warfrom carrying out in its entirety his designfor the palace of Whitehall. Had the wholestructure been built, and Van Dyck beencommissioned to paint upon the walls of theBanqueting Hall the story of the Order of FACSIMILE SKETCHES OF CAPITALS the Garter, at a cost of £75,000, it would c^ i^ioo j-^^

---

Size: 1127px × 2216px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade191, booksubjectdecorationandornament