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The 17th century saw the introduction of different types of internal plasterwork. Stucco marble was an artificial marble made using gypsum (sometimes with lime), pigments, water and glue. Stucco lustro was another a form of imitation marble (sometimes called stucco lucido) where a thin layer of lime or gypsum plaster was applied over a scored ...
Plasterwork in the chancel depicting biblical scenes was designed in about 1639 by Dean Christopher Wren. [3] Five of the six bells are from the 18th century. [ 4 ] The building was further extended in the 19th century, along with restoration in 1845 by Wyatt and Brandon , and interior alterations in 1875-6 by Sir Arthur Blomfield .
Buildings and structures completed in the 15th century (20 C, 64 P) D. 15th-century documents (4 C, 10 P) 15th-century drawings (2 C, 4 P) H. Works by Robert Henryson ...
Strapwork became popular in England in the late 16th and 17th centuries as a form of plasterwork decorative moulding used particularly on ceilings, but also sculpted in stone for example around entrance doors, as at Misarden Park (1620), Gloucestershire, or on monumental sculpture, as on the frieze of the monument to Sir John Newton (d.1568 ...
In due course, the Brookes failed in the male line and the house descended to Robert Townley Parker of Cuerden, who added the south wing in 1825 and stuccoed the exterior, probably to the design of Lewis Wyatt, who worked for Parker at Cuerden Hall. The dining room in the early 19th-century wing has inlaid 16th-century panelling brought in from ...
A 12th century Chapter house from France in the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts [14] Other later period buildings were also transported like the Cotswold Cottage, built in the early 17th century in Chedworth , Gloucestershire , England , now in The Henry Ford museum in Dearborn, Michigan . [ 15 ]
“During the 14th to 15th century there (was) a lot of piracy on the Baltic Sea,” one of the study authors said. 15th century shipwreck reveals ‘surprising’ cargo and weapons for fending ...
The 15th-century Nailloux Altarpiece in south-western France is an example of a five-panel set that remains in situ. Many statues were smaller than this, but there are a number of larger ones. An example of a much larger statue, three feet high and free-standing but flat-backed, is Our Lady of Westminster , now in London but found by the art ...