Elizabethan - a person who lived during the reign of Elizabeth I; "William Shakespeare was an Elizabethan"
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
Adj.
Elizabethan architecture is the term given to early Renaissance architecture in England, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I.
Elizabethan Style
Elizabethan Style, in English art, a period between the Gothic and Renaissance styles.
Elizabethan, Tudor, Half-Timbered
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This is another of the many Revival Style houses of the early 20th century.
Elizabethan:
A large furniture style of severe form that emerged during the reign of Elizabeth I in England during the latter half of the 1500's. Elizabethan pieces are characterized by heavy carving and massive size.
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Elizabethan
- building style of Elizabeth 1 of England. (It is argued that it should not be applied to Scotland) A time of transition from Gothic to Renaissance, so a mixture of old and new concepts, with vernacular design mixed in.
Elizabethan style is often described as Early Renaissance.
Sometimes, the architecture during King James's reign (Jacobean), also, Renaissance. is included in Tudor style.
Also called Elizabethan or English Revival, the Tudor Revival takes its style from English Renaissance buildings of the 16 th and early 17 th centuries, ...
The newel stair was at its best in Elizabethan and later Renaissance times.
Not always distinguishable from the preceding Elizabethan manner, with which it shares a fondness for densely applied classical ornament and symmetrical gabled façades.
Shakespeare is Elizabethan by accident of birth, but essentially he is the fruit of pre-Reformation England.
This time period includes the styles called Tudor (a style developed during the reign of Henry VIII in the 1500s), Elizabethan, Jacobean, ...
The Elizabethans delighted in devices. In literature this was expressed in the word play of the sonnet. This continued into their architecture, employing geometric patterns, letters and symbols in their plans, decorative work and gardens.
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. Private clubs and law offices also took this style.
manor, Fortified manor house: During the late 14th and the 15th centuries the necessity of fully defensible castles was on the decline, so that the number of fortified manors increased and developed into the undefended mansions of the Elizabethan and ...
Strapwork - Elizabethan decoration on ceilings and screens that looks like cut leather.
Stringcourse - Projecting band of stone, brick or other moulding running horizontally along the face of a building.
 See also: Architecture, House, Tudor, Ornament, Renaissance
  
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