The decorative periods (1906) (14781326734)

Identifier: decorativeperiod00clifrich (find matches)
Title: The decorative periods
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Clifford, C. R. (Chandler Robbins), 1858-1935
Subjects: Furniture Decoration and ornament Interior decoration
Publisher: New York, Clifford & Lawton
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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oadlywhimsical; it was dainty; it clung more closely to the floral andconventional forms. In Italian Renaissance one sees the samecharacteristics, but in addition, dragons with mens heads andsingular plant structures with womens bodies. German Renais-sance was more sturdy, although no less extravagant. The French Renaissance extended from 1502 to 1643 i wefrequently hear of Decorative Peri-ods such as the Henry II, Henry IV,the Louis XIII, but they were all ofthe Renaissance. Catherine de Medici, wife ofHenry II, and granddaughter ofLorenzo the Magnificent, andMarie de Medici, who marriedHenry IV of France, left indelibleimpressions on the art of France byreason of their liberal en-couragement of the Re-naissance ; but if one con-sults the ChronologicalTable om will see that thecombined reign of HenryII, Francis II, CharlesIX, Henry HI and HenryIV was in the aggregatebut sixty years, so it isunreasonable to presumethat any one of them couldhave established a distinc-tive design epoch.
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SPANISH SPAIN, or the Peninsula Iberia, as it was known to the ancients,had no decorative art worth mentioning until the timewhen it was overrun by the Moors, 710-713, when the conquer-ors introduced the Moorish style. In Spain this, under the nameof Morosc(ue or Hispano-Moresque, reached its highest develop-ment, in the Alhambra. The Moors were not entirely drivenout of the Southern provinces until 1610, but in the nine hun-dred years intervening the Moresque style flourished sporadicallythroughout many portions of Spain. During the RomanesquePeriod a large part of the country was under Moorish dominion,but with the capture of Toledo, 1062, began the emancipationfrom Moslem rule, and in the Northern provinces art was influ-enced by the Romanesque, following the French models closely.This style continued until the close of the campaigns against theMoors, 1217-1252, when the ecclesiastical spirit became moreprominent and the Gothic in Spain began. In this, also, Frenchmodels were follo