E-3: English Reception Room of the Jacobean Period, 1625-55

Art Institute of Chicago

E-3: English Reception Room of the Jacobean Period, 1625-55

Designed by Narcissa Niblack Thorne

Date
c. 1937
Medium
Miniature room, mixed media
Culture
United States
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago

In this English reception room of the Jacobean Period (1625-55) Italian Renaissance architecture and the contemporary fashion for Baroque ornamentation are the major influences. Here, Mrs. Thorne drew on two lavish rooms at Wilton, the magnificent house designed for Philip Herbert, fourth Earl of Pembroke.

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Object type
AAT300427608

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