THE IMPORTANCE OF THE PATTERN BOOK

79. SALAMANCA: PORTAL OF THE UNIVERSITY, c. 1525-30.
late in die i6th and even in the first years of the lyth century,
and Thorpe derived as much inspiration from French and Italian
books as he did from the fantastic ornamental pattern books of the
Netherlands, especially those by Vredeman de Vries which came
out in 1565 and 1568,
These pattern books summed up what is the most remarkable
contribution of Flanders and Holland to the style of Mannerism, a
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