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Character of renaissance architecture (1905)

Moore, Charles Herbert, 1840-1930 · New York, London, The Macmillan Company · leaf 267

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to England, and hadbrought in the tasteless forms of design that had been currentwith them. The ungrammatical and inelegant misuse of theorders, and the meaningless barocco scrollwork, with which theElizabethan houses were overloaded, may be largely due tothem. But these modes of design were… … Fig. 132. —Portal of WoUaton Hall. xiii THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND , 225 the hands of the master builders. No complete drawings wereprepared in advance. Only the general scheme in roughsketches of plans and elevations was furnished, and these werefreely modified, and the details developed, as the…

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