bad period

Ravenna's cathedral contains nothing of any architectural interest, as it was rebuilt in the bad period of the eighteenth century.

This is flanked by twelfth-century towers, on the top of which are ugly white marble figures, executed at a bad period.

The originator and moving spirit of this bad period was Miss Linwood, who conceived the idea of copying oil paintings in woolwork.

They belong to the bad period of archology, when sentiment overcame both reason and sense.

Her profile might have been taken from a Sicilian coin of a bad period.