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The Elizabethan era saw growing prosperity, and contemporaries remarked on the pace of secular building among the well-off. The somewhat tentative influence of Renaissance architecture is mainly seen in the great houses of courtiers, but lower down the social scale large numbers of sizeable and increasingly comfortable houses were built in developing vernacular styles by farmers and townspeople.
The prodigy houses stretch over the periods of Tudor, Elizabethan, and Jacobean architecture, though the term may be restricted to a core period of roughly 1570 to 1620. [3] Many of the grandest were built with a view to housing Elizabeth I and her large retinue as they made their annual royal progress around her realm.
1570 – Andrea Palladio publishes I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura (The Four Books of Architecture). 1573 – Philip II of Spain signs the Laws of the Indies which determine community planning in his overseas possessions. 1576–79 – Jacques I Androuet du Cerceau publishes Les plus excellents bastiments de France in Paris with engraved ...
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the ... In 1570, the Ridolfi plot was ... (Revival architecture) Music in ...
Smythson designed a number of notable houses during the Elizabethan era. Little is known about his birth and upbringing—his first mention in historical records comes in 1556, when he was stonemason for the house at Longleat, built by Sir John Thynne (ca. 1512–1580).
Architecturally, Plas Mawr is almost unchanged from the 16th century, and the historian Rick Turner considers the house to be "the finest surviving town house of the Elizabethan era". [1] Plas Mawr shows a blend of continental Renaissance and local North Wales influences, with an innovative floor-plan and architectural detailing. The house ...
1570. 25 February – Pope Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England with the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis [1] which is affixed to the door of Old St Paul's Cathedral in London on 24 May. Florentine banker Roberto di Ridolfi devises the Ridolfi plot to assassinate Elizabeth and replace her with the Catholic Mary, Queen of Scots.
Religious buildings and structures completed in 1570 (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Buildings and structures completed in 1570" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.