Queen Elizabeth I Suite

Monarch: Queen Elizabeth I of England

Artist: George Gower

Interior Characteristics:

• Elizabethan style was eclectic, borrowing decorative motifs from Gothic, Italian, and Flemish design.
• Exteriors and interiors were ornately decorated.
• The main impulse of Elizabethan architecture was toward a well ordered symmetry.
• Elizabethan symmetrical facades often filled with huge windows.
• Things like a broad staircase, a long gallery connecting the wings of the house on the upper floors, withdrawing rooms, and bedrooms of greater size and importance were to make the people there feel content.
• Furniture is more carved with ornamental detailing. The main colours that would have been used were the natural tones of wood.
• Beds became huge with a wooden roofed canopy that was supported by the headboard. It also had four large posts making the canopy able to support itself.