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Meander (art) A meander or meandros[1] (Greek: Μαίανδρος) is a decorative border constructed from a continuous line, shaped into a repeated motif. Among some Italians, these patterns are known as "Greek Lines". Such a design may also be called the Greek fret or Greek key design, although these terms are modern designations; this ...
The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in scroll form, though many types are plant-scrolls, which loosely represent plant forms such as vines, with leaves or flowers attached.
Art catalogs. [] One of the earliest list of woodcuts by Dürer was assembled in 1808 by Adam Bartsch in his "Le Peintre Graveur" volume 7 [ 1 ] and in the appendix. In 1862 Johann David Passavant expanded "Le Peintre Graveur" [ 2 ] adding additional woodcuts. Bartsch and Passavant works, which were organized alphabetically, are the source of ...
An arch is a curved vertical structure spanning an open space underneath it. [1] Arches may support the load above them, or they may perform a purely decorative role. As a decorative element, the arch dates back to the 4th millennium BC, but structural load-bearing arches became popular only after their adoption by the Ancient Romans in the 4th ...
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit.'Decorative Arts'), [ 1 ] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [ 2 ] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s. Through styling and design of the exterior and ...
A Persian miniature (Persian: نگارگری ایرانی negârgari Irâni) is a small Persian painting on paper, whether a book illustration or a separate work of art intended to be kept in an album of such works called a muraqqa. The techniques are broadly comparable to the Western Medieval and Byzantine traditions of miniatures in ...
Usually no lower border. Dress of figures shows a curved line to the sampot tucked in below waist. Pre Rup style: tendency to copy earlier style, especially Preah Ko and Bakheng. Central figures. Re-appearance of lower border. Banteay Srei style: increase in complexity and detail. Garland sometimes makes pronounced loop on either side with kala ...
Cornice of Maison Carrée (Nîmes, France), a Roman temple in the Corinthian order, with dentils nearest the wall.. In Ancient Greek architecture and its successors using the classical orders in the tradition of classical architecture, the cornice is the topmost element of the entablature, which consists (from top to bottom) of the cornice, the frieze, and the architrave.