Spofford, Harriet Elizabeth Prescott, 1835-1921 · New York : Harper & Bros. · leaf 113
the Jacobean by no means contented itself with this simpler formof Renaissance. In other characteristics it tended more and more to theClassic, although never arriving at purity: in construction, that is, the hor-izontal of the antique mingling with the vertical of the mediaeval, and avolute… … Flemish Chair of Crispin De Passe. THE JACOBEAN. 109 its main outlines that columns and capitals and arches and architraveswere as proper to cabinet and table as to church and palace. But it wasnot, in truth, for more than a hundred years thereafter that pure classi-cism came to be well understood…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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