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ID: 300010211

Record Type: concept

grotesques (motifs, <design elements>, Design Elements)

Note: Ornamental motifs including fanciful human and animal forms and floral ornament, based on the decoration of Nero's Domus Aurea in Rome, discovered in 1488.

Terms:

grotesques (preferred,C,U,English-P,D,U,U)

grotesque (C,U,English,AD,U,U)

grotteschi (C,U,English,UF,U,U)

Facet/Hierarchy Code: D.DG

Hierarchical Position:

Physical Attributes Facet

.... Design Elements (G)

........ <design elements> (G)

............ motifs (G)

................ grotesques (G)

Sources and Contributors:

grotesque............	[VP]
....................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................	Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961) 1.b.2: [singular=] one of the figures or designs [in grotesque orn.]

grotesques............	[VP Preferred]
.......................	American Heritage Dictionary (1969)
.......................	Fleming and Honour, Dictionary of the Decorative Arts (1977) 354
.......................	Fleming et al., Penguin Dictionary of Architecture (1981)
.......................	Lewis and Darley, Dictionary of Ornament (1986) 150
.......................	Oxford Companion to Art (1984) 446
.......................	RILA, Subject Headings (1975-1990)
.......................	Ware and Stafford, Illustrated Dictionary of Ornament (1974) illustration, 102

grotteschi............	[VP]
.......................	Lewis and Darley, Dictionary of Ornament (1986) 150
.......................	Oxford Companion to Art (1984) 446
.......................	Ware and Stafford, Illustrated Dictionary of Ornament (1974) 150


Subject: .....	[VP]


Note:
English	..........	[VP]

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