uenced the various Moorish, Sacracenic
and other Mohammedan styles.

$Gothic.--1100 to 1550.$ It had nothing to do with the Goths, but
was a local European outgrowth of the Romanesque. It spread all
over Europe, and reached its climax of development about 1550. It
was on the Gothic construction that the Northern European and
English Renaissance styles were grafted to form such styles as the
Elizabethan, etc.

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$Moorish.--700 to 1600.$ The various Mohammedan styles can all be
traced to the ancient Persian through the Byzantine. The Moorish or
Moresque was the form taken by the Mohammedans in Spain.

$Indian.--2000 B.C. to 1906 A.D.$ The East Indian style is almost
composite, as expected of one with a growth of nearly 4,000 years.
It has been influenced repeatedly by outside forces and various
religious invasions, and has, in turn, influenced other far Eastern
styles.

$Chinese.--3500 B.C. to 1906 A.D.$ Another of the ancient styles.
It had a continuous growth up to 230 B.C., since when it has not
changed much. It has influenced Western styles, as in the
Chippendale, Queen Anne, etc.

$Japanese.--1200 B.C. to 1906 A.D.$ A style probably springing
originally from China, but now absolutely distinct. It has
influenced recent art in Europe and America, especially the "New
Art" styles.

$Italian Gothic.--1100 to 1500.$ The Italian Gothic differs from
the European and English Gothic in clinging more closely to the
Romanesque-Byzantine originals.

$Tudor.--1485 to 1558.$ The earliest entry of the Renaissance into
England. An application of Renaissance to the Gothic foundations.
Its growth was into the Elizabethan.

$Italian Renaissance, Fifteenth Century.--1400 to 1500.$ The birth
century of the Renaissance. A seeking for revival of the old Roman
and Greek decorative and constructive forms.

$Italian Renaissance, Sixteenth Century.--1500 to 1600.$ A period
of greater elaboration of detail and more freedom from actual Greek
and Roman models.

$Italian Renaissance, Seventeenth Century.--1600 to 1700.$ The
period of great elaboration and beginning of reckless
ornamentation.

$Spanish Renaissance.--1500 to 1700.$ A variation of the
Renaissance spirit caused by the combination of three distinct
styl