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 54
- (Fig. 26), buta closer inspection shows that the tracery has completelydeparted from the simple lines of Gothic work, and hasassumed fantastic forms combined of twisted strands of foliage(Fig. 27), while the columns are honeycombed or twisted intospirals. These examples all tend to show that the… … Fir,. 28.—Roof of Hall. Eltham Palace, Kent. hard. The new ideas were cautiously accepted, and were utilisedto help the existing methods rather than to supplant them.Hitherto it has been fittings, or chantries, or tombs which havefurnished examples—comparatively small and isolated pieces ofwork…
Architecture, Renaissance · Architecture -- England
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