Cartouche (design)
A cartouche (also cartouch) is an oval or oblong design with a slightly convex surface, typically edged with ornamental scrollwork. It is used to hold a painted or low-relief design.[1] Since the early 16th century, the cartouche is a scrolling frame device, derived originally from Italian cartuccia. Such cartouches are characteristically stretched, pierced and scrolling.
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Another cartouche figures prominently in the 16th-century title page of Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, framing a minor vignette with a pierced and scrolling papery cartouche.
The engraved trade card of the London clockmaker Percy Webster shows a vignette of the shop in a scrolling cartouche frame of Rococo design that is composed entirely of scrolling devices.
Gallery
Roman rectangular cartouche-shaped tablets from the sanctuary of Isis and Magna Mater in Mainz
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Two Renaissance cartouches, a big one with Alexander the Great and a smaller one with an inscription, 1574-1637, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Renaissance cartouche in a pediment of the west facade of the Cour Carrée of the Louvre Palace, Paris, designed by Pierre Lescot, 16th century[3]
Design of a Baroque cartouche, by Stefano della Bella, 1647, the Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Etching of a complex Baroque cartouche, by Bernard Turreau, 1716, the Metropolitan Museum of Art_MET_DP834139.jpg.webp)
Baroque Frontispiece for Figures françoises et comiques by Robert Hecquet, 18th century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art_(CH_18264721).jpg.webp)
Etchings of multiple Baroque cartouche designs, unknown date, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York City%252C_RP-P-2011-164-8.jpg.webp)
Rococo cartouche from the Second Livre de Cartouches, circa 1710-1772, Rijksmuseum%252C_Fran%C3%A7ois_Boucher.jpg.webp)
Rococo cartouche in the Chambre de la reine of the Palace of Versailles (Versailles, France)
Louis XVI style cartouche with festoons, based on a Greco-Roman came, circa 1770, Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg.webp)
Renaissance Revival cartouche on Rue des Archives in Paris
Rococo Revival stucco with cartouches in the corners, on a ceiling of the Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest_1.jpg.webp)
Romanian Revival cartouche above a window of house no. 60 on Bulevardul Dacia, Bucharest
19th century Eclectic Classicist cartouche with a mascaron, above the entrance door of the Académie d'Agriculture de France in Paris
19th century Eclectic Classicist cartouche with a caduceus, on the roof of the Crédit Lyonnais headquarters, Paris
19th century Eclectic Classicist rectangular cartouche of the Printemps Haussmann, Paris._There_is_written_MDCCCXCVI_(1896).jpg.webp)
19th century Eclectic Classicist cartouches in and under a pediment of Hala Traian, Bucharest. The rectangular one is a revival of Ancient Roman ones, that had the exact same shape
Beaux-Arts cartouche of the Pont Alexandre III, Paris
Three designs of Art Nouveau cartouches
See also
- Tondo (art): round (circular)
- Medallion (architecture): round or oval
- Architectural sculpture
- Cartouche (cartography)
- Cartouche
- Resist: a technique in ceramics to highlight cartouches, etc.
- Console (heraldry)
Footnotes
- Ching, Francis D. K. (1995). A Visual Dictionary of Architecture. New York: John Wiley and Sons. p. 183. ISBN 0-471-28451-3.
- Fullerton, Mark D. (2020). Art & Archaeology of The Roman World. Thames & Hudson. p. 87. ISBN 978-0-500-051931.
- Bresc-Bautier, Geneviève (2008). The Louvre, a Tale of a Palace. Musée du Louvre Éditions. p. 28. ISBN 978-2-7572-0177-0.
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