Bosses of lions' heads and rosettes project from the surfaces of the beams, between which the intarsia panels are flat.
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Figure intarsia from the Sacristy of the Cathedral, Florence.
The first master of intarsia mentioned among the Olivetan monks is a certain lay brother, "laico Olivetano," who came from Tuscany in the first half of the fifteenth century, and taught the art to the monks of S.
The intarsia on the back showed ornament of fine style, drawings of sacred objects and perspectives of fine buildings drawn from various parts of the city.
Boulle himself worked intarsia of wood also at intervals all through his life.
Figure Intarsia from the Sacristy of the Cathedral, Florence, " 21 10.
Miniato, Florence, were made in 1466 by Francesco Manciatto and Domenico da Gajuolo; but perhaps the highest point reached by Florentine intarsia is shown by the stalls of S.
They are intarsia work, and show a most delightful fancy.
The stalls are covered with good intarsia work, but they have been greatly spoiled by careless restoration, and have a naked and forsaken look about them.
The Italian school of the fifteenth century in the marriage coffer, where painting or coloured intarsia is of parallel beauty with the rich carving, achieved like success.
Similarly in the old intarsia days the workers did not heed time.
Occasionally settles and buffets--very occasionally--had stringing in a thin pattern of black and whiteintarsia work.
In North Germany intarsia was principally employed on smaller articles, such as cabinets, chairs, coffers, although Luebeck and Danzig furnish fine examples in the panelling of the town-halls.
Some intarsiawork in the choir stalls is very good, but with this exception, and the Pope's monument, San Domenico is not nearly so interesting as San Pietro de' Casinensi.
The stalls and their seats are full of exquisitely carved wood-work, and the doors at the east end are marvellous specimens of intarsia work.
One account says that the intarsia designs were furnished by Raffaelle; another tells us that Domenico del Tasso was both designer and executor of this beautiful work.
It contains excellent intarsia by Giovanni da Verona, especially on the reading desk and choir stalls, and there is similar work by him in the library of the monastery.
Of all the examples of pictorial Intarsia the most elaborate are perhaps those in the choir stalls of Sta.
They consist of figure subjects and landscapes on a small scale, shaded with all the delicacy and roundness attainable in a tinted drawing, and certainly show how near Intarsia can approach to painting.
Marqueterie and Intarsiaare the same thing, though from habit the French title is generally used when speaking of work on a smaller scale.
The later Italian Intarsia was betrayed into extravagance by the dexterity of the craftsman.
As to its durability, the experience of four centuries since Vasari's time has proved that with ordinary care, or perhaps with nothing worse than mere neglect, Intarsia will last as long as painting.
The recognised way of making Intarsia was, and is, to form both pattern and ground in thin veneers about 1/16 of an inch thick, which are glued down upon a solid panel.
Is it in scale with its surroundings and in harmony with itself?
Anthony of Padua on the holy water basins just inside the main door; and the corners of delectable medieval cities in intarsia work on the stalls.
The steps of the raised temple in which the saint and the basilisk perform have a beautiful intarsia of foliage similar to that on the Giants' Staircase at the Doges' Palace.
Everywhere the eye sees frescoes fading from the walls; and Napoleon, who never saw any harm in robbing Peter to pay Paul, stole some of the exquisite intarsia stalls of the convent church to enrich the cathedral of Siena.
In 1478 there were thirty-four workshops of intarsia makers in Florence.
In Germany there was some interesting intarsia made by the Elfen Brothers, of St. Michael's in Hildesheim, who produced beautiful chancel furniture.
Benedetto da Maiano, one of the "most solemn" workers in intarsia in Florence, became disgusted with his art after one trying experience, and ever after turned his attention to other carving.
The artist only took ten years to execute this really wonderful work; the intarsia figures of the stalls in pale yellow wood, most of them fancy portraits of the companions of St. Francis, are remarkable for their form and character.
The only other fine things in the cathedral are the stalls of intarsia work of carved wood, by Giovanni di Pier Giacomo da San Severino (1520), a pupil of the man who executed the far finer stalls in San Francesco.
The carving is as perfect and delicate as it is bold and crisp; and it is not difficult to believe that this intarsia possesses the renown of being the most perfect of its kind in Italy.
On the right hand side are some lovely intarsia panels by Fra Giovanni da Verona, one of the monks belonging to the monastery of this church.
In a corner by the door leading into the choir and almost concealed by a cupboard is the portrait of Fra Giovanni himself, the friar who as has been said did this intarsia work, the greatest master of the kind that Italy has ever produced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "intarsia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
