1. elizabethan era
... . Before the sixteenth century there were hardly any portraits of people other than kings, but after Elizabeth started to rule middle class people started to be sculpted and painted. This age marked a distinction between public and private portraits. Public portraits were important to people since others would see them and they needed to be portrayed as a good person. Private portraits were ... the best. Another form of art was in architecture. "The finest architecture, then, represented a fertilization of native vigour with foreign sophistication, as in music and literature."(Rowse) Arc...
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