A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 32
IN ENGLAND 15 but in spite of Henrys lavish employment of Italian artists, wecannot point to a single instance of a building of the sixteenthcentury designed and carried through by any one Italian inEngland. The evidence on every hand points to the conclusionthat they were employed as workmen, and… … CHEST ON CHOIR SCREEN, WINCHESTER. merely inserted into the brick walls of an ordinary Englishbuilding, which indeed architecturally might have been verymuch better without them. When the English masons hadbuilt the screen or the chantry after their own fashion, theItalian carver was called in, and…
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