2. Noun. a knitted design resembling a mosaic ¹
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Definition of Intarsia
1. a decorative technique [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intarsia
Literary usage of Intarsia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... concept of a dome made of two the architect's second biographer, it was also
applied shells greatly relieved the weight of the structure, to intarsia. ..."
2. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"The woodwork was executed by Giovanni Barile of Siena, and the intarsia by Fra * C.
Silvani Germanic! in statuam Leonis X., PM silva, Romae, 1524. ..."
3. Arts and Crafts Essays by Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society (1903)
"intarsia AND INLAID WOOD-WORK A LTHOUGH decoration by inlaying •* woods of
different colours must naturally have suggested itself in very early times, ..."
4. A Practical Treatise on the Manufacture of Bricks, Tiles, Terra-cotta, Etc. by Charles Thomas Davis (1884)
"... loose clay is compressed into a little more than one-half solid tile. SECTION II.
THE MANUFACTURE OF MOSAICS AND IMITATION INLAID, OR intarsia SURFACES. ..."
5. Sacred and Legendary Art by Jameson (Anna) (1863)
"... to place before us an allegory, and not an action: it is innocence triumphant
over 184 St. Margaret. intarsia, San Giovanni, .Multu. Fifteenth century. ..."
6. Antique Furniture by Frederick William Burgess (1915)
"The root meaning of the word intarsia is found in the Latin word ... intarsia.
The intarsia work is older than marqueterie, and is traceable to ..."
7. Venice: Its Individual Growth from the Earliest Beginnings to the Fall of by Pompeo Molmenti, Horatio Forbes Brown (1907)
"Graceful designs were invented for coders, boxes, seats, high-backed chairs,1
while the intarsia in the choir of San Marco, begun in i486 by the Florentine ..."
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