The decorative periods . ueen Anne, 1702-1714. Flemish Renaissance influenced the period from 1507 to 1584. DutchRepublic founded 1576. German Renaissance, beginning under AlbreclitDiirer about 1550. Spanish Renaissance, beginning about 1500, also influ-enced the English styles. affected the furnishing of a house independent of any architecturaland art movement. From the beginning of the English Renais-sance, 1509, down to, and including, the period of George I,much that was Dutch or Flemish was generously adopted. Infact, Flemish and English furniture and carving were similar in the Elizabeth
The decorative periods . ueen Anne, 1702-1714. Flemish Renaissance influenced the period from 1507 to 1584. DutchRepublic founded 1576. German Renaissance, beginning under AlbreclitDiirer about 1550. Spanish Renaissance, beginning about 1500, also influ-enced the English styles. affected the furnishing of a house independent of any architecturaland art movement. From the beginning of the English Renais-sance, 1509, down to, and including, the period of George I,much that was Dutch or Flemish was generously adopted. Infact, Flemish and English furniture and carving were similar in the Elizabethan andJacobean epochs. The table here illus-trated is purely Flemishand yet Elizabethan ;and the great bed ofWare is likewiseFlemish. The Elizabethan wasa period of affluence inthe arts, commerce andliterature, an age thatgave birth to Spenser,Shakespeare and Bacon,and produced the EastIndia Company. It wasan age of industrial em-ployment and great.,.J^JulT/^ maritime activity, and FLEMISH-ELIZABETHAN CARVING -.
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