es--the Renaissance as known in Italy, the Gothic and the
Moorish. In furniture the Spanish Renaissance is almost identical
with the Flemish, which it influenced.

$Dutch Renaissance.--1500 to 1700.$ A style influenced alternately
by the French and the Spanish. This style and the Flemish had a
strong influence on the English William and Mary and Queen Anne
styles, and especially on the Jacobean.

$German Renaissance.--1550 to 1700.$ A style introduced by Germans
who had gone to Italy to study. It was a heavy treatment of the
Renaissance spirit, and merged into the German Baroque about 1700.

$Francis I.--1515 to 1549.$ The introductory period when the
Italian Renaissance found foothold in France. It is almost purely
Italian, and was the forerunner of the Henri II.

$Henri II.--1549 to 1610.$ In this the French Renaissance became
differentiated from the Italian, assuming traits that were
specifically French and that were emphasized in the next period.

$Louis XIII.--1616 to 1643.$ A typically French style, in which but
few traces of its derivation from the Italian remained. It was
followed by the Louis XIV.

$Elizabethan.--1558 to 1603.$ A compound style containing traces of
the Gothic, much of the Tudor, some Dutch, Flemish and a little
Italian. Especially noted for its fine wood carving.

$Jacobean.--1603 to 1689.$ The English period immediately following
the Elizabethan, and in most respects quite similar. The Dutch
influence was, however, more prominent. The Cromwellian, which is
included in this period, was identical with it.

$William and Mary.--1689 to 1702.$ More Dutch influences. All
furniture lighter and better suited to domestic purposes.

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$Queen Anne.--1702 to 1714.$ Increasing Dutch influences. Jacobean
influence finally discarded. Chinese influence largely present.

$Louis XIV.--1643 to 1715.$ The greatest French style. An entirely
French creation, marked by elegance and dignity. Toward the end of
the period it softened into the early Rococo.

$Georgian.--1714 to 1820.$ A direct outgrowth of the Queen Anne,
tempered by the prevailing French styles. It includes Chippendale,
Hepplewhite and Sheraton, but these three great cabinetmakers were
sufficiently distinct from the average Georgian to be worthy