Margent
Margent is a vertical arrangement of flowers, leaves or hanging vines used as a decorative ornament in architecture and furniture design in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. This motif was developed as a complement to other decorative ornaments, hanging as "drops" at the ends of a festoon or swag. Also used to accentuate the vertical lines of window frames and centered in ornamental panels.
The term margent is an archaic word meaning "margin", a border or edge; especially handwriting on the edges of a printed book (or marginalia). Related to the word "marches", the area between two regions.
Shakespeare uses the word in Act II, Scene I of A Midsummer Night's Dream:
These are the forgeries of jealousy
And never, since the middle summer's spring,
Met we on hill, in dale, forest or mead,
By paved fountain or by rushy brook,
Or in the beached margent of the sea,
To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind,
But with thy brawls thou hast disturb'd our sport.
- —Titania, the queen of the fairies
Beached Margent of the Sea is also the name of a painting by Canadian artist, F.M. Bell-Smith (1846–1923).
Gallery
- Renaissance margents on two pilasters of the entrance of the Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice, by Pietro Lombardo, 1481-1489
- Renaissance margents on two pilasters of a door with the emblem of Francis I, 1515-1547, oak and metal, Louvre
- Renaissance Revival margents on pilasters of the Hielanman's Umbrella, Glasgow, UK, unknown architect, 1879
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- Renaissance Revival margent on a pilaster of Strada Grigore Cobălcescu no. 18, Bucharest, unknown architect, c.1890
See also
References
- ^ "Palais du Commerce". pop.culture.gouv.fr. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
- Lewis, Philippa; G. Darley (1986). Dictionary of Ornament. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 0-394-50931-5.
- Swan, Abraham (1757). Collection of Design in Architecture. Volume II
- Meyer, Franz Sales (1898). Handbook of Ornament.
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- Acanthus
- Antefix
- Arabesque
- Ball flower
- Bead and reel
- Blackamoor
- Branchwork
- Bucranium
- Buta
- Cartouche
- Christmas
- Cornucopia
- Curlicue
- Dentil
- Dog-tooth
- Egg-and-dart
- Festoon
- Foil
- Gadrooning
- Garden/Lawn
- Garland bearers
- Girih
- Green Man
- Grotesque
- Guilloché
- Gul
- Hilarri
- Hood
- Interlace
- Lintel
- Margent
- Mascaron
- Meander
- Medallion
- Millefleur
- Molding
- Moresque
- Palmette
- Plant
- Peak
- Puer mingens
- Putto
- Rais-de-cœur
- Rinceau
- Rosette
- Scroll
- Spur
- Strapwork
- Trophy of arms
- Volute
- Zellige
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