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 335
nament of much elaboration. Theplainest examples are sufficient to give character to a room,while the richest are bewildering in the intricacy of the patternand the minuteness of the detail. The origin of the idea is to be found in the treatment adoptedby the late Gothic joiners. When they had a… … DEVELOPMENT OF CEILING ORNAMENT. formed of wood, were straight ; their panels rectilinear andoften rectangular, the whole treatment being suggested by themoulded constructional timber of earlier roofs. At HamptonCourt, in the portions built by Wolsey and Henry VIII., thereare several ceilings of…
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