Greece: Man and Nature
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following essay is from the 1996 publication Gods, Men, and Heroes: Ancient Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Mortise and Tenon
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Mortise and tenon joints are two pieces of wood connecting where a projecting tongue (tenon) of one piece is made to fit into the corresponding cutout (mortise) in the other piece.
Veneer
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Veneer is thin sheets of decorative material, usually wood, but also occasi
Broken Pediment
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Pediments whose lines are interrupted either at the apex or the base, or in both locations are referred to as broken pediments. They are found especially on Late Antique, Baroque, and Mannerist architecture, and on Chippendale furniture.
Claw and Ball Feet
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Claw and ball feet (or ball and claw) termination mainly used on cabriole legs in the first half of the 18th century (though earlier examples occur), representing a bird's or dragon's claw clutching a ball. It derives from an oriental symbol of evil in the world — the dragon's claw grasping a pearl.
Cabriole Leg
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
Cabriole legs have a double curve, convex above concave, introduced about 1700.
Cabinetmaker
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The term "cabinetmaker" emerged as more sophisticated methods of furniture building emerged in mid-17th century England and colonial America. The earliest American settlers brought deeply embedded woodworking traditions with them on their long voyages to the New World. They made good use of the abundance of timber that resulted as they reshaped the forested landscape.
Resist Dyeing
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
A method of patterning yarns or cloth by protecting selected areas so that they are able to “resist” the dye when the material is immersed and remain undyed.
Art in Traditional Indonesian Cultures
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
It was not so long ago that the supposed superiority of Western art over non-Western indigenous artistic creations was taken for granted.
Themes in Traditional Indonesian Arts
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In most of the more than three hundred ethnic groups in Indonesia, one encounters the tradition that when claiming the new land, the mythical founder first had to deal with its autochthonous inhabitants—some of them human, some of them the spirits that had always been there, associated with the natural world and predating the arrival of humankind.