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A spreading scrollwork panel below, scrolling forms coming off a straight stem in the side panels, and a border band of meanders below the figures. Examples of one basic form of the scroll, taken from existing monuments. [1] Note the common core element of the heart shaped confronted volutes & stem, highlighted in green.
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.
Scrimshaw is scrollwork, engravings, and carvings done in bone or ivory. Typically it refers to the artwork created by whalers , engraved on the byproducts of whales, such as bones or cartilage. It is most commonly made out of the bones and teeth of sperm whales , the baleen of other whales , and the tusks of walruses .
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
Examples of computer clip art, from Openclipart. Clip art (also clipart, clip-art) is a type of graphic art. Pieces are pre-made images used to illustrate any medium. Today, clip art is used extensively and comes in many forms, both electronic and printed. However, most clip art today is created, distributed, and used in a digital form.
Monochrome photography is photography where each position on an image can record and show a different amount of light (), but not a different color ().The majority of monochrome photographs produced today are black-and-white, either from a gelatin silver process, or as digital photography.
A curlicue, or alternatively curlycue, in the visual arts, is a fancy twist, or curl, composed usually from a series of concentric circles.It is a recurring motif in architecture (as decoration to the lintel or architrave above a door), in calligraphy and in general scrollwork.
She painted all the buildings black with white trim and added colors to the doors. [6] Draper did a great deal of hotel design, including the Sherry-Netherland in New York, the Drake in Chicago, the Fairmont in San Francisco. [5] At the height of the Depression, she spent $10 million designing the Palácio Quitandinha in Petrópolis, Rio de ...