Vitruvian scroll
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The Vitruvian scroll is a scroll pattern used in architectural moldings and borders in other media. It is also known as the Vitruvian wave, wave scroll, or running dog pattern.[1] The pattern resembles waves in water or a series of parchment scrolls viewed on end.
"Vitruvian" refers to the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ("Vitruvius"), who wrote the oldest extant book on architecture,[2] which describes some of the classical architectural orders.
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![Ancient Greek Vitruvian scrolls under the lip of the Vix Krater, c.530 BC, bronze, Musée du Pays Châtillonnais, Châtillon-sur-Seine, France[3]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Crat%C3%A8reVixD%C3%A9tail1.jpg/340px-Crat%C3%A8reVixD%C3%A9tail1.jpg)
Ancient Greek Vitruvian scrolls under the lip of the Vix Krater, c.530 BC, bronze, Musée du Pays Châtillonnais, Châtillon-sur-Seine, France[3] -
Ancient Greek Vitruvian scrolls on the handle of the Vix Krater -
Roman Vitruvian scrolls on a mosaic (only the bottom border survived), 2nd-4th centuries, mosaic, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, US -
Roman Vitruvian scrolls on a mosaic with animals, 4th century AD, mosaic, Louvre -
Baroque door with Vitruvian scrolls friezes of the Hôtel de Beauvais, Paris, by Antoine Lepautre, 1657-1660 -
Neoclasiical detail of a building showing the Vitruvian scroll pattern rendered in terra cotta -
Art Deco window grill with stylized Vitruvian scrolls in Bulevardul Hristo Botev no. 26, Bucharest, Romania, unknown architect, c.1930
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Running-dog pattern". Encyclopædia Britannica. Britannica. 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
- ^ Vitruvius, "The Ten Books on Architecture"
- ^ Papaioannou, Kostas (1975). L’art grec (in French). Mazenod. p. 173.
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