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Jacobean
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The term can be used of any James (Jacobus in Latin) but is by convention limited to the reign of *James I (1603–25). The architecture of this period follows on from the *Elizabethan Renaissance style but tends towards a more dislocated (or *'mannerist') application of individually striking elements. In furniture the characteristic material is a dark heavily carved oak. Late in the reign Inigo *Jones introduced the isolated beginnings of *Palladianism.
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