Article: Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Influence of Continental Prints, 1558-1625.(Review)

Anthony Wells-Cole. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997. xii + 344 pp. $75. ISBN 0-300-06651-1.

Among the virtues of this hefty work are its illustrations: an outpouring of decorative imagery including masonry, plaster friezes and ceilings, overmantels, hall screens and cabinetry, wall paintings, tapestries and applique wall hangings, needlework cushion covers, intarsia panels, banquet trenchers and silver spice bowls. Some objects are familiar; others have been reproduced rarely, if at all. The "visual culture" of early modern England is here brought vividly to light. Wherever one looked in Knole or Burton Agnes or Hardwick Hall (their ostensibly ...

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