Tarsia used to lie by the river-side, and was a flourishing place, according to the descriptions of Leandro Alberti and other early writers; floods and malaria have now forced it to climb the hills.
In proof, they say that if you dig near Tarsia below the present river-level, you will pass through beds of silt and ooze to traces of old walls and cultivated land.
Domenico did the tarsia and rosettes in the seat backs of the refectory of S.
There is, however, no material suitable for tarsia which requires so much care and experience in its use.
A cypress chest of 1350, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, shows another mode of decoration standing between tarsia proper and the mediæval German and French fashion of sinking the ground round the ornament and colouring it.
He was considered the finest artist in tarsia of his time, he having, "with his woods, coloured to a marvel, raised the art to the rank of real painting.
Orvieto was another place where tarsia work was made at an early date, but the craftsmen were all Sienese.
The ceremonies observed by Tarsia at her nurse's grave, and the preparations for the burning of the body of Apollonius's wife, are purely pagan.
The riddles which Tarsia propounds to her father are obviously interpolated.
The stalls of St. Domenico at Bologna are by Fra Damiano of Bergamo; it is said of him that his woods were coloured so marvellously that the art of tarsia was by him raised to the rank of that of painting!
The carvings of this work were executed by Fra Giovanni da Verona, a master of tarsia and carving.
The allusion to Tarsia suggests some notice of the practice of the Roman bawds when they had secured a virgin.
The bawd orders a sign or advertisement to be hung out, inscribed, "He who deflours Tarsia shall pay half a pound, afterward she shall be at the public service for a gold piece.
In that work the capture of a virgin named Tarsia by a bawd is described.
Few people will interest themselves about Tarsia work, of which Vasari speaks slightingly, that it was fittest for those persons who have more patience than skill in design.
Indeed, the art is even now becoming more important in its application to furniture: our fashionable tables are a kind ofTarsia work.
Maria del Fiore, which were held at that time to be admirable examples of tarsia and inlaid-work.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tarsia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
