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JACOBEAN STYLE

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 115 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STYLE , the name given to the second phase of the See also:early See also:Renaissance See also:architecture in See also:England, following the Elizabethan style. Although the See also:term is generally employed of the style which prevailed in England during the first See also:quarter of the 17th See also:century, its See also:peculiar decadent detail will be found nearly twenty years earlier at Wollaton See also:Hall, See also:Nottinghamshire, and in See also:Oxford and See also:Cambridge examples exist up to 166o, not-withstanding the introduction of the purer See also:Italian style by Inigo See also:Jones in 1619 at See also:Whitehall. Already during See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth's reign reproductions of the classic orders had found their way into See also:English architecture, based frequently upon See also:John Shute's The First and See also:Chief Grounds of Architecture, published in 1563, with two other See also:editions in 1579 and 1584. In 1577, three years before the commencement of Wollaton Hall, a copybook of the orders was brought out in See also:Antwerp by See also:Jan Vredeman de Vries. Though nominally based on the description of the orders by See also:Vitruvius, the author indulged freely not only in his rendering of them, but in suggestions of his own, showing how the orders might be employed in various buildings. Those suggestions were of a most decadent type, so that even the author deemed it advisable to publish a See also:letter from a See also:canon of the See also:Church, stating that there was nothing in his architectural designs which was contrary to See also:religion. It is to publications of this See also:kind that Jacobean architecture owes the perversion of its forms and the introduction of strap See also:work and pierced crestings, which appear for the first See also:time at Wollaton (1580); at Bramshill, See also:Hampshire (1607-1612), and in See also:Holland See also:House, See also:Kensington (1624), it receives its fullest development. (R. P.

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