Scrollwork

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Man over a scrollwork cartouche, Fontainebleau Castle

The scrollwork is a form of decoration that occurs mainly in the art and architecture of Mannerism and early Baroque from around 1530 to the early 17th century. Crossed and rolled up, pushed through and multi-layered, three-dimensional-looking ribbon shapes are their characteristics, which are mainly found in decorative frames, coats of arms and cartouches . Therefore the scrollwork is also referred to as a cartridge work, corresponding structures as "scrollwork cartridges". Often the rolling mechanism occurs in combination with the fittings , in English both are summarized under "strapwork".

The scrollwork was developed around 1530 by Italian artists at the school of Fontainebleau , it was further developed in the Netherlands and distributed there through ornamental engravings by Cornelis Floris (" Floris style ") and his student Hans Vredeman de Vries , in Germany by Virgil Solis . After 1570 the scrollwork ornament was replaced by fittings and swivel work .

literature

  • Lotte Pulvermacher : The scrollwork in southern German sculpture and its development up to approx. 1620 (= studies on German art history. Issue 285). JH Ed. Heitz, Strasbourg 1931, DNB 362083290 .
  • Günter Irmscher: Ornament in Europe. Deubner Verlag for Art, Theory and Practice, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-937111-10-7 , p. 95.

Web links

Commons : Images for Roll- and Fittings  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Daniel Arasse , Andreas Tönnesmann : The European mannerism. Beck, Munich 1997, p. 101.
  2. Mannerism. In: Lexicon of Art. Volume 8. Karl Müller Verlag, Erlangen 1994, pp. 15-24, here: p. 23.
  3. scrollwork. In: Peter W. Hartmann: Kunstlexikon. Hartmann, Sersheim 1997, ISBN 3-9500612-0-7 ( beyars.com [accessed November 23, 2019]).
  4. ↑ Style development and distribution in the transition from the Middle Ages to the modern age - What was the Renaissance? (PDF; 2.6 MB) University Library Center of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia , p. 72. Accessed June 20, 2016.
  5. ^ Daniel Arasse , Andreas Tönnesmann : The European mannerism. Beck, Munich 1997, p. 101