| London experienced a cultural and artistic movement in | | | | voices, the English madrigals were light in style. |
| between early 16th and early 17th century which is | | | | Renaissance also influenced the architectural style of |
| known as the English Renaissance Period. The English | | | | that period. Emphasis was laid upon symmetry, |
| Renaissance was much influenced by the | | | | proportion, geometry and on maintaining the regularity in |
| pan-European Renaissance which is said to have | | | | the architecture. Inigo Jones is credited for propounding |
| originated in the 14th century in northern Italy. Often | | | | Renaissance architecture in England. He had studied |
| known as the "age of the Shakespeare" or "the | | | | architecture in Italy, the country influenced by the |
| Elizabethan era," the English Renaissance created | | | | Andrea Palladio who transformed the architectural |
| stimulation in art, architecture, literature and music of | | | | style of both palaces and churches. He designed great |
| whole of England. The transition in the England was | | | | buildings such as the Queen’s House at Greenwich |
| accepted with reluctance and it was rather a medley | | | | and the Banqueting House at Whitehall. |
| of the forgotten Gothic and the naïve Renaissance. | | | | Even the style of making furniture was influenced by |
| No field in England was untouched by the revolution | | | | Renaissance. It cannot be denied that England was |
| caused by Renaissance. The English literature was | | | | much influenced by the Italian style of art and |
| marked by the works of poets like Edmund Spenser | | | | architecture. Though Oak wood was used to make |
| and John Milton, playwrights like William Shakespeare | | | | furniture but now apple, pear, chestnut, walnut, holly and |
| and Christopher Marlowe and philosophers like Sir | | | | pine were also used to improve the quality of the |
| Thomas More and Sir Francis Bacon. Some produced | | | | furniture. Earlier the ornate-furniture was only limited to |
| works which explained the English Christian beliefs; | | | | the churches and ecclesiastical houses. With the |
| some represented English thought on life and death | | | | improvement in the position of the citizen, English |
| and also covered the glorious history of London; and | | | | people also beautified their home with magnificent |
| some printed their works on their ideas on humanity | | | | furniture. |
| and on Utopian society. | | | | However, many historians argue that English |
| Renaissance also had great impact on the music. | | | | Renaissance was nothing but just a transition towards |
| From renowned ballads to church songs and | | | | a modern world. They contend that English |
| sophisticated court music, many inventive steps were | | | | Renaissance does not level with the artistic |
| taken and the music during the Renaissance period | | | | achievements and aims similar to their Italian |
| had become varied and more delightful. The comedy | | | | counterparts. The English literature had been seeing its |
| and tragedy plays used music to make it livelier. A | | | | growth since the time of Geoffrey Chaucer. |
| new school of music also developed in this period | | | | Nevertheless, most of the historians still are of the |
| which was known as the English Madrigal School. The | | | | opinion that there was an artistic flowering in London |
| English Madrigal was either copies of Italian musical | | | | and other regions of England in the period between |
| works or their direct translations. Mostly in three to six | | | | early 16th and early 17th century. |