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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.
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
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, 1601, Rijksmuseum
Baroque Frontispiece for Figures françoises et comiques by Robert Hecquet, 18th century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Louis XVI style cartouche with festoons, based on a Greco-Roman came, circa 1770, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rococo Revival stucco with cartouches in the corners, on a ceiling of the Cantacuzino Palace, 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 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
![Roman rectangular cartouche on the frieze of the entrance of Horrea Epagathiana et Epaphroditiana, Ostia, Rome, 145-150 AD[2]](/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Ostia%2C_horrea_epagathiana_01.JPG/170px-Ostia%2C_horrea_epagathiana_01.JPG)
See also
- Tondo (art): round (circular)
- Medallion (architecture): round or oval
- Architectural sculpture
- Cartouche (cartography)
- Resist: a technique in ceramics to highlight cartouches, etc.
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.
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