Cartouche (design)

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title: Cartouche (design)
text: A cartouche 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. 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 Ar
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description: Frame for a painted or engraved design
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartouche_(design)
date created: 2007-07-22T16:47:37Z
date modified: 2024-08-31T19:23:15Z
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