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Definition of Tarsia
1. n. A kind of mosaic in woodwork, much employed in Italy in the fifteenth century and later, in which scrolls and arabesques, and sometimes architectural scenes, landscapes, fruits, flowers, and the like, were produced by inlaying pieces of wood of different colors and shades into panels usually of walnut wood.
Definition of Tarsia
1. Noun. intarsia ¹
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Definition of Tarsia
1. intarsia [n -S] - See also: intarsia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarsia
Literary usage of Tarsia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design by Giorgio Vasari (1907)
"Of Mosaic in wood, that is, of tarsia ; and of the Compositions that are made in
Tinted Woods, fitted together after the manner of a picture. § 100. ..."
2. Original Treatises, Dating from the XIIth to XVIIIth Centuries on the Arts by Mary Philadelphia Merrifield (1849)
"I. cap. v.1 tarsia WORK. Another art, allied to mosaic painting, ... The subjects
most proper for tarsia work are perspective representations of buildings ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... panel- pictures, tapestries, tarsia-work, stucco-reliefs, and sculpture—executed
for the duke by some of the chief Italian artists of his time, ..."
4. Catalogue of Books Relating to Architecture: Construction and Decoration in by Boston Public Library, Mary Harris Rollins, Frank A. Bourne (1914)
"1875. Plates. Beltrami, L. (Continued.) La tarsia e la scultura in legno neue
sedie coral! e negli armadi di alcune chiese di Milano e délia Lombardia ..."
5. Catalogue of Books Relating to Architecture: Construction and Decoration in by Boston Public Library, Mary Harris Rollins, Frank A. Bourne (1914)
"La tarsia e la scultura in legno nelle sedie coral! e negli armadi di alcune
chiese di Milano e délia Lombardia. Illustrazione di V. Forcella. 2» edizione. ..."
6. A Tour Through the Southern Provinces of the Kingdom of Naples by Keppel Richard Craven (1821)
"CHAPTER XIX. Rogliano... Cosenza... Rivers Crati and Busento ... Ancient Cities
on the Coast ... S. Francesco di Paola... tarsia... Castrovillari. ..."
7. The Overture: And Other Poems by Jefferson Butler Fletcher (1911)
"... GALEAZZO DA tarsia Camilla, che ne lucidi Camilla, thou who in those still
and clear Fields of the sky a new star art reborn, And leav'st me, ..."
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