A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 36
his influence was as yet solvent ratherthan synthetic. It broke up the ground for new ideas ;• at itshigher level it prepared the way for the maturer architecture ofInigo Jones, at its lower, for all that charming play of-simplefancy which marks the best English craftsmanship of the six-teenth… … DOOR-HEAD, BURGATE STREET, CANTERBURY. CHAPTER II The Germans in England—Elizabeth-James I The death of Henry VIII. marks a turning-point in Englishhistory. The end of his despotism was as the end of a longnightmare; and henceforward the English instinct asserts itselfwith increasing strength, not…
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