British visual art began A _____, influenced by early Scandinavian wood carvings, and after the Christianization of England, painting appeared at first only in illuminated manuscripts. From the 12th to the 16th century, the great cathedrals in the Romanesque and Gothic styles were В_____. Among the characteristics that distinguished English from European cathedrals were double transepts, rectangular apses and fan vaulting. Later, such 17th and 18th century architects as Inigo Jones and Christopher Wren brought, respectively, C_____.
From the beginning of the Renaissance, English painting was influenced by foreign artists, such as the German painter Hans Holbein the Younger in the 16th century and the Flemish painter Sir Anthony van Dyck in the 17th century. Not until the 18th century, with the work of portrait painters such as William Hogarth, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney, did D_____, English styles in furniture and ceramics, in the work of Thomas Chippendale and Josiah Wedgewood in particular, evolved in the 18th century. In the 19th century John Constable was notable for landscape painting and Joseph Mallford William Turner Е_____, and in the 20th century perhaps F_____ are the sculptor Henry Moore and the painters David Hockney and Francis Bacon.
- Renaissance and Baroque architecture to England
- are known all over the world
- with the interest in ornamentation
- for seascape painting
- a distinctive style develop in English painting
- the best-known artists
- the most outstanding products of English art
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