CHAPTER III

THE RENAISSANCE: PART I 63–96

Dawn of the Renaissance—The Transitional Period—Coffers and _Bahuts_—Court of Margaret of Austria—Perrèal’s Style— Margaret’s Tomb by Perrèal—Taste of the Regent—Margaret’s Tapestries, Carpets, Table-covers and Cushions—Her Curios— Flemish Tapestries—Cartoons by Bernard van Orley—William de Pannemaker—English Tapestries—Last Days of the Gothic Style—Guyot de Beaugrant, Lancelot Blondeel and Peter Pourbus—Stalls in the Groote Kerk, Dordrecht—Carvings in Haarlem—Invasion of the Renaissance—Walnut, the Favourite Wood for Furniture and Carving—Versatility of the Artists— the Fleming as Emigrant—the Renaissance in Burgundy—Hugues Sambin—Sebastian Serlio—Peter Coeck of Alost—Pupils of Peter Coeck—Lambert Lombard—Francis Floris, the “Flemish Raphael”—the Craze for Numismatics—Hubert Goltzius— Cabinets of the Sixteenth Century—Italian Furniture— Characteristic Features of Renaissance Furniture— Ornaments, the Arabesque, Pilaster, Cartouche, _Cuirs_, Banderole and Caryatid—Publications of Decorative Design— Alaert Claes, Lucas van Leyden, Cornelis Bos and Martin van Heemskerck.