HISTORY OF ART AND INTERIOR DESIGN (ENGLISH STYLES)

Elizabethan Period

The term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I

Cinqueccento

The Elizabethan period in Italy and France

Plateresque Style

Spanish Renaissance style; From Spanish "platero" for "silversmith". Late Gothic and early Renaissance architecture that was decorated with very elaborated motifs; also "Isabelline Architecture"

Inigo Jones

Introduced Renaissance Classicism into England, was influenced by Andrea Palladio. Hardwick Hall & Queen's House

Hardwick Hall

The numerous and large mullion windows are typically english renaissance (elizabethan/english renaissance)

Queen's House

Example of english palladianism by inigo jones; a former royal residence for anne of denmark, the queen of king james the first (elizabethan/english renaissance)

Charles III

Patron of English Baroque

St. Paul's Cathedral

By Christopher Wren, the largest cathedral in England

Castle Howard

By Sir John Vanbrugh, a baroque masterpiece, essentially two unbalanced wings, designed and executed to divergent visions, ranged about a central dome of striking beauty

Blenheim Palace

An architectural masterpiece in the English Baroque style built by the architect John Vanbrugh aided by Nicholas Hawksmoor

Georgian Architecture

was the style of the 18th century, especially from the reign of King George I who ascended the throne in 1711. The deisng of manors planned as simple symmetrical square or rectangular blocks with or without wings

Victorian Architecture

Industrialization brought many innovation, the revival and eclectic architecture, characterized by rapid changes of style as a consequence of aesthetics controversy and technological innovations and by an overall trend for classicism at the start to Romantiscism and Eclecticism at the middle period and to classicism again

Victorian Architecture

Cast iron framing, utilitarian structures that often lacked traditional ornamentation

Crystal Palace

By Joseph Paxton, built for the Great Exhibition in 1851, made of prefabricated iron and glass panels

National Library, Paris

By Henri Labrouste, use of slender cast iron columns over which nin vaulted sky-lighted domes where suspended

Eiffel Tower

By Gustav Eiffel, an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris, built for the 1889 International Exhibition Pairs, the centenary celebration of the French Revolution

Paris Opera House

By Charles Garnier, the exuburance of its decoration is today seen as one of the symbols of the Imperial regime. Its ceiling was painted in 1964 by Chagall

Gothic Revival

A movement aimed at reviving the spirit of Gothic Architecture orginating in the late 18th century but flourishing mainly in the 19th century in France, Germany, England and US

Augustus Pugin

Mainspring of the archaeologically-correct Gothic Revival with his True Principles of Christian or Pointed Architecture

Eugene Viollet le duc

A leading architect whose genius lay in restoration. He believed in restoring buildings to a state of completion that they would not have known even when they were first built

Westminster Palace

By Sir Charles Barry and Augustus Pugin, the meeting place of the two houses of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, the House of Lords and the House of Commons, uses the Perpendicular Gothic style and contain the Victoria Tower and Big Ben.