A Catalogue Of A Truly Capital Highly Valuable Assemblage Chiefly Of Distinguished Italian And A Few Spanish French Flemish And Dutch Pictures Of The Finest Class The Genuine And Entire Collection Of William Young Ottley

Author : Esther Singleton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330401552
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Dutch and Flemish Furniture written by Esther Singleton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Dutch and Flemish Furniture No special inducement need be held out to an educated Englishman at the present day to take an interest in a particular field of the arts and crafts of the Low Countries. Long before the nobles of Flanders, France and England were associated in attempts to free the holy places from the pollution of infidel possession, the dwellers on the opposite coasts of England, Normandy and the Netherlands had been bound together by many dynastic and trade bonds. As we follow the course of history, we find that the interests of the English and the Flemings were inextricably connected; and there was a constant stream of the manufactures of the Low Countries pouring into English ports. The English supplied much of the raw material upon which the Flemings depended for subsistence. In mediaeval days the inhabitants of the Low Countries could always be forced by English statecraft to help the Plantagenet kings in their continental intrigues by the mere cutting off of the supply of wool. Later, the community of tastes and interests in Reformation days drew the races closer together; and all through Elizabethan days, and then onwards till the close of the Marlborough campaigns, the inhabitants of England and the Netherlands were on terms of intimate acquaintance, socially and industrially. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.