Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 397
during the sixteenth cen-tury. It was the tendencyof the Renaissance periodto build palaces andcastles, and in the latertimes municipal and pri-vate dwellings, as learningand the arts were gettinginto the hands of the lay-men, in contrast to the days of the Middle Ages, when theclergy and monks… … Fig. 410. —Portion of the Certosa of Pavia. RENAISSANCE ARCHITECTURE AND ORNAMENT. 377 the strict canonical laws of style; hence we find a greatervariety and wider range of ideas expressed in the art of theperiod, due in a great measure to the individuality of theartists, which has given to the art…
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