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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
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FRANCIS I, SHOWING TRACES OF GOTHIC, 1515-1549 EARLY FRENCH RENAISSANCE
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HINRI II, Ii;4>->;>9 EARLY FRENCH RENAISSANCE 148 The Decorative Periods mans, grotesquely. My illustrations give one an idea of the fundof material in hand which covered, in fact, all that had lived anddescended from the Greeks and Romans. The French Renaissance was less mythological, less broadlywhimsical; 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-coura

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