Early renaissance architecture in England; a historical & descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan & Jacobean periods, 1500-1625, for the use of students and others (1901)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 220
ament with which thedesign is overloaded, its main ideas are plainly visible: thelarge and simple windows, the emphasizing of the angles, thegables of studiously irregular outline. In some Dutch andGerman work the designers seemed to lose sight of theirpurpose in the exuberance of their ornament,… … 105.—Cottage at Steventon, Berkshire. AND AT KIRBY HALL. 121 can be identified,are those of classicpersonages—Plato,Aristoteles, Ver-gilius—and aresaid to have beenbrought over fromItaly. The west front ofKirby (Fig. 107)offers a great con-trast to Wollaton.Here everything upas high as the para-pet…
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