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Article: Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Influence of Continental Prints, 1558-1625.(Review)
- Article from:
- Renaissance Quarterly
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 The Renaissance Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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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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