Early renaissance architecture in England : a historical and descriptive account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean periods, 1500-1625 : for the use of students and others (1914)
Gotch, J. Alfred (John Alfred), 1852-1942 · London : B.T. Batsford New York : Scribner's · leaf 131
THE PORCH i >f classic origin, and attired in classic garb, the most modernpersonages usually admitted to this distinction being thosethree of the Nine Worthies who were of Christian extraction.In the spandrils of the arch are circular medallions with busts,and in the parapet are the royal arms.… … FIG. 88.—Hambletun Hall, Rutland. and Keeper of her Seal. Below these verses was the aphorism, Mediocria firma, that is, Firm is the middle state.Statues, busts, and inscriptions are all characteristic of thetaste of the period, and will be more particularly dealt withlater on in connection with…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture -- England
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