A short history of renaissance architecture in England, 1500-1800 (1900)
Blomfield, Reginald Theodore, Sir, 1856-1942 · London, G. Bell and sons · leaf 364
lish crafts-man very soon got abreast of the Germans and eventually drovethem from the field. The influence of the Germans graduallydeclined, and the closing of the Steelyard at the end of thesixteenth century pretty well coincides with the date of the re-covered ascendancy of the Englishman. He… … LUX J\ Ir^ jr^ U^-e^ GARDEN DOOR, SHAW HOUSE, NEWBURY. spontaneous vivacity of the late mediaeval craftsman, and hadthoroughly bewildered himself with the five orders. By thebeginning of the seventeenth century he had reached a degree 296 CONCLUSION [chap, xv of mechanical accomplishment and…
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