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Renaissance screen
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The drawing shows an elevation of a wooden screen, spanning a Medieval opening in either a domestic or, less likely, an ecclesiastical context. The screen has four open round-headed arches on the upper storey, two on each side of a pedimented central arch which has at the spandrels two shields with coats of arms. The decoration and character are late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth century, in the Renaissance style, probably English.
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Title: Renaissance screen
Description:
The drawing shows an elevation of a wooden screen, spanning a Medieval opening in either a domestic or, less likely, an ecclesiastical context.
The screen has four open round-headed arches on the upper storey, two on each side of a pedimented central arch which has at the spandrels two shields with coats of arms.
The decoration and character are late-sixteenth or early-seventeenth century, in the Renaissance style, probably English.
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