Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art Details from a frieze in the Chapel of San Giovanni

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Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art Sgraffito Frieze decoration, 16th century Sgraffito means "scratched" in Italian. It describes a decorative technique in which a base surface is covered with material of another color and then the design is "scrat

Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art Wood-Carving in Relief by Antonio Barile of Siena (ÿ 1516). In the year the artist died, Erasmus published the New Testament of the Bible with Greek and Latin text and Sir Thomas More wrote "Utopia"

Patterns & Motifs - Italy - line art Velvet Hanging from Renaissance Florence c. 1580 appliquZ work, embroidered, bordered with silk cord, Florentine, 16th Century, vertical, flowers, silk thread, Europe, Italian The Renaissance -- the revival of arts a

Artifacts - Porcelain - Italy Fayence Vase c. 1580 Fayence is the French name for a style of tin-glazed porcelain remarkable for its fastness of color over hundreds of years. Italian manufacture was centered in the town of Faenza, near Bologna in Northe

Alpine Flower Montecrestese Italy