King Charles Suite

Era: Jacobean 1603-1649

Monarch: King James I of England

Artist: Reubens

Interior Characteristics:

• This period saw the first decisive adoption of Renaissance motifs in a free communicated to England through German and Flemish carvers instead of coming straight from Italy.
• Although the general lines of Elizabethan design remained, there was a more consistent and unified application of formal design.
• Furniture became lighter and more adaptable. Much use was made of columns and pilasters, round-arch arcades, and flat roofs with openwork
• parapets.
• These and other classical elements appeared in a free and fanciful vernacular rather than with any true classical purity.
• With them were mixed the prismatic rustications and ornamental detail of scrolls, straps, and lozenges also characteristic of Elizabethan design.