Vocabulary Baroque, Rococo and American Colonial |
Italian Baroque
Protestant Reformation and the Counter Reformation
Six Characteristics of Italian (Roman Catholic) Church interiors and exteriors
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Brancesco Borromini
Carlo Maderno
Gianlorenzo Bernini
c-Scrolls
s-Scrolls
Flemish scrolls
Baroque France: Louis XIV and Regence
Cardinal Mazarin
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Berainesque arabesques and grotesques
Boulle Work
Daniel Marot
term leg/pillar leg
console/bracket stretchers
saltire stretchers
manchette
bureau semainier
Philippe, the Duke of Orleans
chinoiseries
singeries
espagnolettes
serpentine shape
bombe shape
English Baroque: Carolean, William & Mary, Queen Anne, Early Georgian
Carolean
monarchs associates with this style.
Where did Charles II spend his time in exile?
Grinling Gibbons
spiral turning
baluster turning
Turkey work
pendant handles
restoration chair (and how it changed in the later James II style)
floral marquetry
oystering
arabesque and seaweed marquetry
japanning
cross-banding
herringbone boarders
Flemish scroll
Dovetail Construction, (what it is, how it is different from mortise and tenon and how the change affected surface decoration)
William and Mary
umbrella leg
periwig chair
splat-back chair
hoop-back chair
cabriole leg
cloven hoof foot
lowboy/dressing table
highboy/chest on stand
secretary bookcase/bureau bookcase
double hooded/ flat-arch top
Daniel Marot
knee hole desk
Queen Anne and Early Georgian
Sir Christopher Wren (Great Fire, new style for Protestant churchs, significants of St. Paul’s Cathedral)
Palladian Style Architecture
Colen Campbell (Vitruvius Britannicus, 1715)
Richard Boyle (aka Lord Burlington)
William Kent
scrolled pedement
club/dutch foot
claw and ball foot
hairy paw/ shaggy paw foot
cockbeading
decorated Queen Anne Style
wing chair
reading-writing chair
porter/page Chair
chair-back setteee
slant-front secretary
double hooded top
tallboy/chest on stand
French Rococo: Louis XV
"rocaille work"
vernis Martin
gilded bronze mounts
French whorl foot
Spanish scroll foot
fauteuil
bergere
canape
chaise longue
duchesse
duchesse brisee
turquois
table a ouvrage
bureau plat
bureau a cylindre
bureau a pente
bonheur du jour
secretaire a abattant
commode
encoignure
sabots
Chippendale
The Gentleman and Cabinetmaker’s Director
Copeland and Lock
ribbon back chair
Chippendale Settee
French/"Modern" Chippendale
Chinese Chippendale
Gothic Chippendale
lattice work
card cut fret work (solid or pierced)
brackets
cluster column legs
Marlborough leg
moulded plinth foot
pedestal tables including tripod Supper Tables, Silver Tables, Tea Tables
tilt-top tables with bird cage mechanism
pie-crust edge
pagoda motif
cupid’s bow crest rail
American Colonial Styles
Early Colonial Architecture
Late Colonial Architecture
Early Georgian Architecture
Late Georgian Architecture
garrison style house
saltbox style house
Cape Cod style house
gabled roof
hipped roof
gambrel roof
shingles or shakes
clapboard
batten door
quions
Carver chair
Brewster chair
slat-back chair
banister back chair
pad foot
slipper foot
paintbrush foot
trifid or drake foot
block-front furniture (what is it, the originators and where they were from, what style was it applied to)
Hadley chest
Connecticut sunflower chest
butterfly table
rush seat
Difference between lowboy, highboy and tallboy
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