The book of decorative furniture, its form, colour, & history (1911)
Foley, Edwin · New York, G.P. Putnam's sons · leaf 75
he end of the fifteenth-century, clerical dominance wasdeclining. Feudalism was upon its last legs, internal dissensionsassisting its fall. By the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in1453 the long-totteriiig and shrunken remnant of the once all-powerfulRoman Empire received its death-blow. In…
Furniture · Decoration and ornament
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