Mosaic border of rinceaux and animals, from the Via Panisperna in Rome, late 2nd - early 1st century BC

In architecture and the decorative arts, a rinceau (plural rinceaux; from the French, derived from old French rain 'branch with foliage') is a decorative form consisting of a continuous wavy stemlike motif from which smaller leafy stems or groups of leaves branch out at more or less regular intervals. The English term scroll is more often used in English, especially when the pattern is regular, repeating along a narrow zone. In English "rinceau" tends to be used where the design spreads across a wider zone, in a similar style to an Islamic arabesque pattern.

The use of rinceaux is frequent in the friezes of Roman buildings, where it is generally found in a frieze, the middle element of an entablature, just below the cornice. It is also decorated in the jamb ornaments and capitals of Romanesque structures and in friezes and panels of buildings in the various Renaissance styles, where tiny animals or human heads also appear.[1]

The rinceau experienced a return to the simpler Classic style in the 17th century, and in the subsequent century it was applied more freely, without a strict repetition of identical forms.[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Cf. J. Ward, Historic Ornament: Treatise on Decorative Art and Architectural Ornament, BiblioBazaar (2009), s.v. Rinceau.
  2. ↑ Cf. A. Speltz, The History of Ornament: Design in the Decorative Arts, Portland (1989), s.v.
  3. ↑ Robertson, Hutton (2022). The History of Art - From Prehistory to Presentday - A Global View. Thames & Hudson. p. 323. ISBN 978-0-500-02236-8.
  4. ↑ Eastmond, Anthony (2013). The Glory of Byzantium and early Christendom. Phaidon. p. 81. ISBN 978 0 7148 4810 5.
  5. ↑ Eastmond, Anthony (2013). The Glory of Byzantium and early Christendom. Phaidon. p. 83. ISBN 978 0 7148 4810 5.
  6. ↑ Eastmond, Anthony (2013). The Glory of Byzantium and early Christendom. Phaidon. p. 83. ISBN 978 0 7148 4810 5.
  7. ↑ Eastmond, Anthony (2013). The Glory of Byzantium and early Christendom. Phaidon. ISBN 978 0 7148 4810 5.
  8. ↑ "LAMBRIS DU CABINET DE L'HÔTEL COLBERT DE VILLACERF". carnavalet.paris.fr. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
  9. ↑ Jacquemart, Albert (2012). Decorative Art. Parkstone International. p. 70. ISBN 978-1-84484-899-7.
  10. ↑ Sharman, Ruth (2022). Yves Saint Laurent & Art. Thames & Hudson. p. 147. ISBN 978-0-500-02544-4.
  11. ↑ Stefan Sagmeister; Jessica Walsh (2018). Beauty. Phaidon. p. 192. ISBN 978 0 7148 7727 3.
  12. ↑ "PAIRE DE VASES « FUSEAU »". amisdulouvre.fr. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
  13. ↑ "tapis de choeur Louis-Philippe". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 5 October 2023.
  14. ↑ Jones, Denna, ed. (2014). Architecture The Whole Story. Thames & Hudson. p. 294. ISBN 978-0-500-29148-1.
  15. ↑ Oprea, Petre (1986). Itinerar Inedit prin Case Vechi din București (in Romanian). Editura Sport-Turism. p. 59.
  16. ↑ Marinache, Oana (2015). Ernest Donaud - visul liniei (in Romanian). Editura Istoria Artei. p. 79. ISBN 978-606-94042-8-7.
  17. ↑ Mariana Celac, Octavian Carabela and Marius Marcu-Lapadat (2017). Bucharest Architecture - an annotated guide. Ordinul Arhitecților din România. p. 80. ISBN 978-973-0-23884-6.

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