Medallion (ornament)

Medallion on a facade in Trento

In architecture and arts and crafts, a medallion is a round or oval-shaped decorative field with paintings or reliefs that is used to decorate facades, interiors, monuments, tombs, furniture, carpets, glasses or equipment.

The materials used for building plastic medallions are different; for example, there are those made of stone , bronze , alabaster , terracotta and marble . In the Renaissance were for the design often busts and portrait reliefs or busts of ancient used models.

literature

• Meyers Enzyklopädisches Lexikon, Bibliographisches Institut, Lexikonverlag, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1975, Volume 15, p. 812.

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