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The start of the practice dates from before the seventh century AD. The technique of intarsia inlays sections of wood (at times with contrasting ivory or bone, or mother-of-pearl) within the solid wood matrix of floors and walls or of tabletops and other furniture; by contrast marquetry assembles a pattern out of veneers glued upon the carcass.
See Art periods for a chronological list. This is a list of art movements in alphabetical order. These terms, helpful for curricula or anthologies, evolved over time to group artists who are often loosely related. Some of these movements were defined by the members themselves, while other terms emerged decades or centuries after the periods in ...
Inlay (ivory, red sandalwood, copper) on wooden casket. In a wood matrix, inlays commonly use wood veneers, but other materials like shells, mother-of-pearl, horn or ivory may also be used. Pietre dure, or coloured stones inlaid in white or black marbles, and inlays of precious metals in a base metal matrix, are other forms of inlay. Master ...
Art of Ancient Egypt; Art in Ancient Greece; Asian art; Buddhist art; Confucian art; Coptic art; Hindu art; Indian art; Islamic art; Naive Art; Pre-Columbian art; Pre-historic art; Roman art; Visigothic art; Visual arts by indigenous peoples of the Americas; Transgressive art; Outsider art
Casket, early 18th century, attributed to André-Charles Boulle, oak carcass veneered with tortoiseshell, gilt copper, pewter and ebony, in the Art Institute of Chicago. Marquetry (also spelled as marqueterie; from the French marqueter, to variegate) is the art and craft of applying pieces of veneer to a structure to form decorative patterns or ...
An art movement is a tendency or style in art with a specific art philosophy or goal, followed by a group of artists during a specific period of time, (usually a few months, years or decades) or, at least, with the heyday of the movement defined within a number of years.
Timeline - dates may be approximations. 35,000 BCE - The first bone flutes were made in Germany. 8800 BCE - The first bone flutes which could play the standard pitch A6 were made in China. 5000 BCE - The first flutes were made in India out of wood. 3000 BCE - The first string instrument, the guqin, was invented in China.
For Wilde, however, the inner meaning of Victorian decorative arts is fourfold: one must first reconstruct one’s inside so as to grasp what is outside in terms of both living quarters and mind, whilst hearkening back to von Humboldt on the way to Plato so as to be immersed in contemporaneous cosmopolitanism, [8] thereby in the ideal state ...