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	Jacobean style - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		JACOBEAN STYLE [Jacobean style], an early phase of English Renaissance architecture and decoration.
		Jacobean buildings of note are Hatfield House, Hertford; Knole House, Kent; and Holland House by John Thorpe.
		Elizabethan "modernism," Jacobean "postmodernism": schematizing stir in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-jacobean.html (375 words)

	Jacobean Furniture, Jacobean Era Furniture Style
		The Jacobean, or Jacobethan, era was another phase of English Renaissance architecture, theatre, and decoration and formed a continuation, begun in the Elizabethan age, of the the Renaissance's penetration into England.
		The early Jacobean furniture period, which inspired much of the early American furniture of the pilgrims (in America Jacobean style furniture is often called Pilgrim furniture), was similar to Elizabethan furniture in that it was still largely made of oak, and of a solid, sturdy construction.
		Early Jacobean furniture was somewhat inward looking, not fully embracing exotic influences, and its ornamentation became less prominent and applied in a less willy-nilly, more ordered, fashion than previously, as can be seen in pictures of early carved furniture.
	www.furniturestyles.net /european/english/jacobean.html (381 words)

	Jacobean architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jacobean style is the name given to the second phase of Renaissance architecture in England, following the Elizabethan style.
		Jacobean buildings of note are Hatfield House, Hertford; Knole House, near Sevenoaks in Kent; and Holland House by John Thorpe.
		It is to publications of this kind that Jacobean architecture owes the perversion of its forms and the introduction of strap work and pierced crestings, which appear for the first time at Wollaton (1580); at Bramshill, Hampshire (1607-1612), and in Holland House, Kensington (1624), it receives its fullest development.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacobean_architecture (453 words)

	Ontario Architecture Styles Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		English inspiration for cottages or manor houses is largely Tudor, Elizabethan, or Jacobean - relating to James I (1603-25) - sometimes with a mixture of these with Renaissance simplicity.
		From the bell-cast roof and dormers to the long, front, covered porch this is reminiscent of the French Regime period of the Eastern Provinces, and the rural architecture of Normandy and Brittany.
		Under the lower roof overhang is a round-headed window with a keystone and stones at the spring.
	www.ontarioarchitecture.com /periodrevivals.htm (1378 words)

	Renaisance Architecture in Wales
		Classical architecture differed in some significant ways from that of the Gothic style which was popular in the middle ages.
		However, the new interest in classical architecture which had taken such a hold of the Italians, was rather slow in taking ground in the rest of Europe.
		Neither was the architectural styles of the medieval period entirely inferior to that of the Renaissance.
	www.elizabethi.org /us/essays/renaissance.htm (4172 words)

	Architecture of the United Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the early 18th century baroque architecture, a style exemplified by heavy embellishment and mass, popular in Europe, was introduced, the first baroque house in England was Chatsworth House by William Talman in the 1690.
		The Georgian architecture of the 18th century was an evolved form of Palladianism.
		Arts and crafts in architecture is symbolized by an informal, non symmetrical form, often with mullioned or lattice windows, multiple gables and tall chimneys.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Architecture_of_the_United_Kingdom (1366 words)

	5. Jacobean
		The Jacobean style dates from the period of King James I and James VI, at the beginning of the 17th century.
		Although Inigo Jones introduced Palladian Classicism during the period, Jacobean architecture combined French, Italian, and Flemish elements.
		The Jacobean style, along with Roman classical forms, survived under the Stuarts (1625-1702).
	www.nicholls.edu /art-dhc/jacobean.htm (51 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Jacobean
		Jacobean style JACOBEAN STYLE [Jacobean style], an early phase of English Renaissance architecture and decoration.
		English literature ENGLISH LITERATURE [English literature] literature written in English since c.1450 by the inhabitants of the British Isles; it was during the 15th cent.
		Tudor style TUDOR STYLE [Tudor style] descriptive of the English architecture and decoration of the first half of the 16th cent., prevailing during the reigns (1485-1558) of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, and Mary I. It is the first of the transitional styles between Gothic Perpendicular and Palladian
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Jacobean&StartAt=11 (612 words)

	The mysteries of Trebor Mansion: the inn on the haunted hill
		The three architectural styles used in the construction, Stick, Queen Anne and Jacobean, came onto existence in 1858, 1874 and 1876, respectively.
		Why the most distinguished piece of architecture in the most prominent setting in the village, housing the largest lodging business in the township and built by the most important family in Guilford barely rates a single mention in the Town's Sesquicentennial Book is a mystery.
		The Queen Anne Jacobean style, rich and varied in ornamentation and form, was wildly popular after its introduction in America at the 1876 Exposition in Philadelphia.
	www.trebormansioninn.com /mysteries.htm (2851 words)

	Fit for a queen: Remodelling of part of the Queen's House, Greenwich permits its use as a gallery and improves ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Queen's House in Greenwich was designed by Inigo Jones for Anne of Denmark, wife of James I. Built between 1616 and 1635 in the hunting grounds of the Tudor palace of Placentia, it was an essay in Jones's assured handling of Palladian style and proportion.
		Pevsner observes that the building's chastity and bareness must have seemed as foreign to contemporary beholders, used to the entertaining elaborations of Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, as Modernism was to the Edwardians.
		In reality, architectural exoticism must have been tempered by familiar amusements, for the house had a fantastical surprise garden with fountains; its plan too was diverting.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3575/is_1259_211/ai_82556284 (943 words)

	Jacobean
		Style in the arts, influential upon architecture and furniture as well as literature, during the reign of James I (1603–25) in England.
		A sudden change to full-blown Palladin architecture occurred early in the 17th century, when Inigo Jones appeared upon the scene and designed the Queen's House at Greenwich (1617–35), and the Banqueting House in Whitehall (1619–22).
		During the reign of King James I (1603–25), the complexity of English literature, like the arts in general, was brought out by increased ornamentation in addition to influences of the past, particularly those of Elizabethan literature.
	www.uk.tiscali.com /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0008845.html (340 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Elizabethan and Jacobean Style: Books: Tim Mowl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This illustrated book shows not only the magnificence of the architecture through specially commissioned photography of Elizabethan and Jacobean houses, but also plunders the great pattern books of the time to show the roots of the often wild elaboration of the period.
		In architecture and in furnishings, classical detail was constantly fused with a Tudor vernacular, to create a style that has been enduringly popular up to the present day.
		Through his research, we are told, he grew to admire the stylistic qualities of the 'Jacobethan' that we tend nowadays to find inelegant, and his convincing and engaging prose style this admiration is well conveyed to the reader.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Elizabethan-Jacobean-Style-Timothy-Mowl/dp/071484120X (1134 words)

	St John's College - Library - Art & Architecture
		Databases of particular interest to art and architecture students include the Avery index of over 1,000 architecture and related journals, the BHA (Bibiliography of the History of Art) which indexes and abstracts art related books and journals, and the Grove dictionary of art.
		These and other relevant resources in both architecture and art can be found on the University Library's webpages, although usage may be password restricted.
		High quality web resources on architecture may be found via the Intute gateway at http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/architecture and on art at http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/visual.
	www.joh.cam.ac.uk /library/working_library/subject_guides/art_architecture (512 words)

	Jacobean - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		- of artistic style: in the style of furniture, architecture, or drama fashionable during the reign of King James I
		Jacobean Style, an English art, architectural and furniture style, dominant during the reign (1603-1625) of King James I. Jacobean Ensemble
		Marriner, Sir Neville, born in 1924, British conductor and violinist, founder of the Saint Martin-in-the-Fields chamber orchestra.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Jacobean.html (102 words)

	Jacobean (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Architecture and furniture during the reign of James I (1603-25) in Britain.
		Jacobean style is an early phase of English
		Jacobean Revival house - Henry W. Wendt House, 120 Lincoln Parkway
	ah.bfn.org /a/DCTNRY/j/jaco.html (219 words)

	English Renaissance - Jacobean Architecture
		Some other well-known Jacobean mansions are : Chastleton House, Oxford (A.D. 1603—14) ; Audley End, Essex (A.D 1609—16) (p.
		The building now known as S. Peter's Hospital, Bristol (A.D. 1607), is a fine half-timbered house of this period, with overhanging upper storeys and panelled " Court Room " with carved chimney-piece and modelled plaster ceilings.
		Many market halls, as at Shrewsbury and Chipping Campden, show how the Jacobean style was applied to buildings for all purposes in this period.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles23/architecture-129.shtml (845 words)

	Antiques Digest - Index 360
		The development of architecture in the British dominions beyond the seas, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, has to a large extent followed the lead of the mother country in the adoption of the Classic, Gothic, and Renaissance styles.
		ANY notice of American architecture here must necessarily be of a suggestive rather than of a descriptive nature, for the architecture of that great continent, with all its daring originality and with its many ramifications, would require a volume to itself.
		Japanese architecture was largely derived from China, but has its own special character of minuteness in carving and decoration which gives it a graceful lightness and delicacy of design, contrasting forcibly with that of Egypt and Rome, in which the great idea was vastness of size and grandeur of proportion.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles/index360.shtml (993 words)

	Jacobean style — Infoplease.com
		Jacobean buildings of note are Hatfield House, Hertford; Knole House, Kent; and
		Elizabethan style - Elizabethan style, in architecture and the decorative arts, a transitional style of the English...
		(World and I) Elizabethan "modernism," Jacobean "postmodernism": schematizing stir in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0825832.html (335 words)

	The Architecture of the Smith-McDowell House Museum
		Today Smith-McDowell House is a blend of architectural styles dating from its original 1840 construction and additions completed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		style of architecture popular in America from the Revolution through the early 19th-century (in North Carolina from about 1800 to 1840) derived from the influential work of the Adam brothers in England.
		Cabins and Castles: The History and Architecture of Buncombe County, North Carolina.
	www.wnchistory.org /museum/architecture.htm (3383 words)

	The Boldons
		At the east end of this aisle is a fine Jacobean chair.
		The long chancel is typical early English architecture.
		A double piscina, used for cleansing the Eucharistic vessels is a rare feature in the south wall.
	groups.msn.com /TheBoldons/stnicholaschurch.msnw?pgmarket=en-us (722 words)

	National Park Service - Explorers and Settlers (Bacon's Castle)
		Bacon's Castle is one of the most important existing buildings of 17th-century Virginia, on both historical and architectural grounds.
		Earliest extant example of the Virginia cross-plan houses and a remarkable architectural monument of the colonial period, it was built by Arthur Allen about 1655 and figured prominently in Bacon's Rebellion of 1676.
		A number of the rebel followers of Nathaniel Bacon seized Major Allen's house and fortified it; the house was thereafter known as Bacon's Castle.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/explorers/sitec56.htm (498 words)

	JACOBEAN STYLE - Online Information article about JACOBEAN STYLE
		Chief Grounds of Architecture, published in 1563, with two other See also:
		Church, stating that there was nothing in his architectural designs which was contrary to See also:
		kind that Jacobean architecture owes the perversion of its forms and the introduction of strap See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /INV_JED/JACOBEAN_STYLE.html (563 words)

	House (architecture) – various architectural styles and influences - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		House (architecture) – various architectural styles and influences - List of Items - MSN Encarta
		House (architecture) – various architectural styles and influences
		, an English art, architectural and furniture style, dominant during the reign (1603-1625) of King James I. View article
	encarta.msn.com /refedlist_210046396_10/Jacobean_Style.html (42 words)

	Jacobean Style - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Jacobean Style - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Jacobean Style, English architectural and furniture style, dominant during the reign (1603-1625) of James I and that (1625-1649) of Charles I. It...
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	uk.encarta.msn.com /Jacobean_Style.html (172 words)

	Bacon's Castle, Surry County Virginia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		According to Preservation News of the National Trust, this building is "the sole surviving high Jacobean manor house in America" (quoted in Smith 41).
		Typical of the Jacobean style are the gable ends with curves and the cruciform plan.
		Source Book of American Architecture: 500 Notable Buildings from the 10th Century to the Present.
	www.bluffton.edu /~sullivanm/virginia/surry/bacon's.html (209 words)

	Arlington Residential - Useful Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Ornamentation which gave an extreme richness to the architecture with plain houses being given fanciful parapets.
		The basis of Georgian domestic architecture, this new approach incorporated Italian precedents which cast aside the elaboration and detail typical of the early 17th Century.
		A fusion of Gothic, Tudor and Jacobean architecture in a time of industrial revolution: windows incorporated big sheets of machine made glass, roofs were built of Welsh slate despatched by train.
	www.arlingtonresidential.co.uk /info.htm (608 words)

	Quess Architecture Custom Designed Furniture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE means specifically Classical Greek architecture exemplified by the major work built between the 4th and 5th centuries B.C. in Greece and its territories.
		CLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE, in a broader sense, also encompasses architecture of the Roman Empire (27B.C. to 476A.D.), Italian Renaissance (15th to early 16th century) and the Classical Revival period in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe.
		TRADITIONAL and PERIOD ARCHITECTURE, on the other hand, are loosely based on the mainstream European architectural styles.
	www.quess.net (170 words)

	Barbados Seven Wonders: Drax Hall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is classic Jacobean architecture, with steep gable roofs, corner finials, casement gable windows and a Jacobean staircase with its carved hall archway of mastic wood.
		Nicholas Abbey in St. Peter and Drax Hall in St. George, two of the oldest buildings in Barbados, both built in the 1650's, stand as proud examples of the Jacobean tradition.
		Drax Hall is the oldest surviving Jacobean mansion in the Western Hemisphere.
	www.barbados.org /drax.htm (184 words)

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