Hamlin, A. D. F. (Alfred Dwight Foster), 1855-1926 · New York, The Century Co. · leaf 237
f the Baroque facades. Both the cartouche and the multiplication of volutesand of curl-overs occur frequentlj^ in the later MiddleRenaissance, especially in furniture and other works ofminor architecture and industrial art, as already ex-plained on p. 131. The Florentine sgabellone ofFig. 106 is… … ITALIAN BAROQUE ORNAMENT tal and in the cartouche, which may be compared withthe Baroque cartouche in Fig. 124 with the arms ofPope Urban VIII, dated over 80 yearslater. The curl-over scroll was a favor-ite device with the furniture-carvers ofthe second half of the 16th century.Indeed, the…
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