Fittings
The fittings are a popular decorative element in architecture and graphics around 1600 and between 1870 and 1890 .
The tape-like, flat, out of the rolling plant derived ornament mimics riveted metal in a symmetrical arrangement fittings after. It was developed in the Netherlands in the late 16th century and then spread mainly in Germany , where it remained in use until around 1620.
In connection with rolled-up ribbons, it appears with scrollwork , often mixed with it. Ornamental forms, some of the same time, are bodywork , cartilage and auricle .
The hardware goes back to the Antwerp sculptor , builder and ornament engraver Cornelis Floris . He developed numerous new ornament forms ( Floris style ), which were distributed through the pattern books of Vredeman de Vries, but also modified.
The neo-renaissance was particularly fond of fitting motifs between 1870 and 1890.
literature
- Wilfried Koch: Baustilkunde - European architecture from antiquity to the present , Orbis-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-572-05927-5 , p. 398 [fittings […] in connection with rolled ribbons = scrollwork , 222 *, with Volutes = Schweifwerk *, 232 *, German and Dutch Renaissance after 1570. → Floris style .]
- Wilfried Koch: Building Style - European Architecture from Antiquity to the Present , Orbis-Verlag, Munich 1988, ISBN 3-572-05927-5 , p. 217 [Renaissance, Mannerism]
- Günther Irmscher: Ornament in Europe . Cologne 2005, pp. 96, 121.
