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strapwork
strapwork. Common Northern-European C16 and C17 ornament in the form of narrow bands or fillets, folded, crossed, cut, and interlaced, resembling narrow leather-straps or thongs. It occurred in an early guise in Mudejar decoration in C15 Spain, but evolved in its most usual forms in early C16 decorations in Tudor England and, especially, at Fontainebleau, France (1533–5). Strapwork became common in Flanders, where complex Mannerist designs were developed, later published by Dietterlin, Floris, de Vries, and in sundry pattern-books, and was much used in English Elizabethan and Jacobean architecture, especially on funerary monuments in churches. It was often decorated with jewels, lozenges, and roundels.
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JAMES STEVENS CURL. "strapwork." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JAMES STEVENS CURL. "strapwork." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-strapwork.html JAMES STEVENS CURL. "strapwork." A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O1-strapwork.html |
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strapwork
strapwork. A type of ornament consisting of decorative forms resembling strips of leather or parchment that have been elaborately cut, pierced, and twisted. Although the origins of strapwork have been traced back earlier in the 16th century, it was first given prominence by Rosso Fiorentino in his stucco decoration of the Gallery of Francis I (c.1533–40) at Fontainebleau. It spread rapidly to Flanders and from there, by means of engraved pattern books and refugee craftsmen, to England, where it was profusely used in Elizabethan and Jacobean decoration in wood, metal, stucco, stone, and printer's ornament.
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IAN CHILVERS. "strapwork." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. IAN CHILVERS. "strapwork." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-strapwork.html IAN CHILVERS. "strapwork." The Oxford Dictionary of Art. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O2-strapwork.html |
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