. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . interpretations of which prevailedthroughout Western and MiddleEurope, with the exception ofsuch parts of Spain as felt thedomination of the Moslem artslong after they had freed them-selves from the Moors. Save in Italy, the grandeur andthe gloom, the silence and thestrength, of the Gothic architecturalenvironment yielded but sullenlyand with compromises to thegraceful vivacity of the new in-terpretation of classic forms; indeed,in parts of France and Flandersthe new gospel appears to havebeen adopted in decorative wood-work be
. The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour and history . interpretations of which prevailedthroughout Western and MiddleEurope, with the exception ofsuch parts of Spain as felt thedomination of the Moslem artslong after they had freed them-selves from the Moors. Save in Italy, the grandeur andthe gloom, the silence and thestrength, of the Gothic architecturalenvironment yielded but sullenlyand with compromises to thegraceful vivacity of the new in-terpretation of classic forms; indeed,in parts of France and Flandersthe new gospel appears to havebeen adopted in decorative wood-work before its acceptance inarchitecture; nor is this a matterfor wonder when one realises thatthe art of the Renaissance was,upon the Continent as in England,as truly the child of the home as*^ that of the Middle Ages had been. the child of the Church SOMAN IONIC OBDEB. THE PASSINGOF THE GOTHIC Gothic had never obtained inRome ; indeed, in Italy generallythe Gothic spirit has never heldthe undisputed sway it possessed 7pr^n7na^pTb^) !] TVPICAL RENAISSANCE AD-APTATION OF ROMAN IONIC. 116 ^%te^ DECORATIVE FURNITURE over other lauds. The first stages : of the evohition of modern, from medii¥val modes, are traceable as ? far back as the middle of the four-• t^eenth century, a hundred years ? before the fall of Constantinoplecaused Greek scholars and artiststo migrate into Italy. jMU»,tf-«*-«< Jlt Jli .AMOUUfti^ 7 ^m THE CINQUECENTOIN DECORATIVEWOODWORK The magnificent outcome inbeautiful woodwork commencingabout the middle of the fourteenthcentury, was in full flower duringthe fifteenth and cuhninated inthe sixteenth century, when theintervals of peace from the inroadsof French, Swiss, Germans, andSpaniards were utilised by thenobles and merchant princes, toembody architecturally the spirito
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