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, ltd.; New York, C. Scribner's Sons · leaf 238
noticed that thewhole of this ornament, although in someinstances it looks rich, is in reality ob-tained by the simplest means, which con-sist in the main of cutting a thin plate ofmetal into a variety of shapes ; there ishardly any modelling about it. Thismethod is characteristic of most of… … A Key t^loie. Chimney-Pieces Much elaboration was bestowed upon the chimney-pieces,of which, indeed, there are very few simple examples to bemet with. They were made of wood, of stone, and of marble.Wood and stone were the more usual materials employed, andit is difficult to say upon which the…
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