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Analysis of ornament. The characteristics of styles : an introduction to the study of the history of ornamental art (1860)

Wornum, Ralph Nicholson, 1812-1877 · London, Chapman and Hall · leaf 134

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bably introduced into this country from the Low Coun-tries, the only difference being that the Elizabethan, like that ofHenry II. of France, exhibits a very striking preponderance of It is the style ofBenvenuto Cellini. Itis also remarkably de-veloped in the remainsof the Chateau dAnet, cal taste,… … Carved Door Panel from the Chateau dAnet, now atthe Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. 94 THE RENAISSANCE. strap-and-shield-work; but this was a gradual result, and whatwe now term the Elizabethan was not thoroughly developeduntil the time of James I., when the pierced shields even out-balanced the…

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