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.

CHAPTER IV

THE RENAISSANCE: PART II 97–129

Second Period of the Renaissance—Court of Mary of Hungary—
Charles V a Fleming—Influence of Burgundian Court in
Spain—Gilded Leather—Wealth of the Nobles in the
Netherlands—Margaret of Valois at Namur—Antwerp in the
Sixteenth Century—Christopher Plantin—Cornelis and James
Floris—Jerome Cock—Hans and Paul de Vries—Jacques van
Noye—Famous Designers—Characteristics of the Second Period
of the Renaissance—Bedsteads, Tables and Chairs,
_Armoires_, Cabinets and Chests—Porcelain, Glass and Glass
Cupboards—Windows and Glass-painters—Guicciardini on the
Artists of the Low Countries—Paul de Vries—Crispin de
Passe the Elder—the Collaerts—Wood-carving—Music and
Musical Instruments.

CHAPTER V

SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (FLEMISH) 131–167

Renewed Italian Influence—Rubens: his Studio, his House,
his Pupils, his Influence, his Successors—Seventeenth
Century Wood-carvers—Development and Tendencies of
Furniture—Crispin van den Passe—Rembrandt’s Goods and
Chattels—Old Belgian Houses—The Pitsembourg—Kitchens—
Leather-hangings—Tapestry—Marquetry—Chairs—Masters of
Ornamental Design—The “Auricular Style.”