Vocabulary for Renaissance |
Renaissance Italy
Brunelleschi
Alberti
Bramante
Michelangelo
Palladio
Vitruvious
ratio of proportions
piano nobile
temple facade
rusticated stone
segmented pediments
triangular pediments
colossal orders
sculptural walls
loggia
cortile
intarsia
pastiglia
pietra dura
pietra commissa
dantesca
savonarola
cassone
credenza
certosina
cassapancia
predella
sgabello
panchetto
monastery chair
Raphalesque arabesques and grotesques
rosettes
festoons/swags
paterae
lozenge
cartouche
putti/churibs
banderoles
atlantes
caryatids
term figures
Spanish Renaissance
taracea
sillon de caderas
frailero
Portuguese chair
vargueno
puente
taquillon
paperler
chatones
mudejar
Low Countries/The Netherlands/Holland and Flanders
Verdeman de Veries
double stretchers
French Renaissance: Francois I, Henri II, Louis XIII
Androuet du Cerceau
Hugh Sambin
spiral turning
baluster turning
bun feet
strapwork
caqueter
chaise a vertugadin
Louis XIII chair
Ile de France Style
Burgudian Style
English Renaissance: Elizabeth I, James I, Charles I, Cromwell
Inigo Jones
Grinling Gibbons
cup and cover supports
gadrooning
applied pendants
oval bosses
applied split turns
wainscot chair
Glastonbury Chair
monk’s chair
joined stool
court cupboard
hall and parlor cupboard
farthingale chair
gate-leg table
chest of drawers
Cromwellian Chair
bobbin turning
raised panels
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