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Scrollwork in its strict meaning is rather different; the scroll is imagined as the curling end of a strip or sheet of some flat and wide material. It develops from strapwork , as the ends of otherwise flat elements, loosely imitating leather, metal sheets, or broad leaves rather than plant tendrils.
Typical early English strapwork of 1589, detail from the monument to Sir Gawen Carew in Exeter Cathedral French stucco, scrollwork and strapwork by Rosso Fiorentino in the Palace of Fontainebleau, 1530s. In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms.
The Joshua Roll, Vatican Library.An illuminated scroll, probably of the 10th century, created in the Byzantine empire. Scroll of the Book of Esther, Seville, Spain Ingredients used in making ink for Hebrew scrolls today
Scrollwork, ornament dominated by scrolls (motifs), found in a variety of artistic media; Scroll painting, a painting on a scroll (media) in Asian traditions, distinguishing between: Handscroll, such a painting in horizontal format; Hanging scroll, such a painting in vertical format
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A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low-relief design. [1] Since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartuccia. Such cartouches are characteristically ...
The oldest known scroll is the Diary of Merer, which can be dated to c. 2568 BCE in the reign of the Pharaoh Khufu or Cheops due to its contents.Scrolls were used by many early civilizations before the codex, or bound book with pages, was invented by the Romans [3] and popularized by Christianity. [4]
The Albanian Wikipedia (Albanian: Wikipedia Shqip) is the Albanian language edition of Wikipedia started on 12 October 2003. As of 15 January 2025, the Wikipedia has 101,316 articles and is the 73rd-largest Wikipedia.