Elizabethan architecture
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Elizabethan architecture refers to buildings in a local style of Renaissance architecture built during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England from 1558 to 1603. The style is very largely confined t
English Renaissance: Hardwick Hall (1590–1597), a classic prodigy house. The numerous and large mullioned windows are typically English Renaissance, while the loggia is Italian.
Burghley House, completed in 1587
Wollaton Hall, Nottingham, England, completed in 1588 for Sir Francis Willoughby by the Elizabethan architect Robert Smythson
Microcosm of London Plate 094 Westminster Hall edited
Burghley House
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Burghley House is a grand 16th-century English country house near Stamford, Lincolnshire. It is a leading example of the Elizabethan prodigy house, built and still lived in by the senior branch of the
Elizabethan architecture
…Important examples of Elizabethan architecture include: Burghley House Charterhouse (London…
Lord Burghley was the chief advisor of Queen Elizabeth I for most of her reign.
William Cecil presiding over the Court of Wards, c. 1585
The Three Brothers Browne, by Isaac Oliver, 1598. L to R: John, Anthony, William; grandsons of Anthony Browne, 1st Viscount Montague who was implicated in the Ridolfi Plot in 1571, Burghley House Collections.