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2. Ornament (art) - Wikipedia

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   Ornament (art) Rococo interior of the Wilhering Abbey (Wilhering, Austria), with a trompe-l'œil painted ceiling, surrounded by highly decorated stucco. In architecture and decorative art, ornament is decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object. Large figurative elements such as monumental sculpture and their equivalents in ...

3. Ornament (music) - Wikipedia

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   Ornament (music) In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes—typically, added notes—that are not essential to carry the overall line of the melody (or harmony), but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line (or harmony), provide added interest and variety, and give the performer the opportunity to add expressiveness ...

4. Garden ornament - Wikipedia

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   Lawn ornament. A front lawn featuring a fountain and a small sculpture of an elephant. Lawn ornaments are decorative objects placed in the grassy area of a property. [1][2][3][4][5][6] Animal forms: animal statues such as frogs, turtles, rabbits, deer, flamingoes and ducks are cast in plastic or cement. Bathtub Madonna: a statue of Mary the ...

5. Palmette - Wikipedia

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   Etruscan architectural plaque with palmettes, from late 4th century BC, painted terracotta, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City. The palmette is a motif in decorative art which, in its most characteristic expression, resembles the fan-shaped leaves of a palm tree. It has a far-reaching history, originating in ancient Egypt with a ...

6. Acanthus (ornament) - Wikipedia

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   In architecture, an ornament may be carved into stone or wood to resemble leaves from the Mediterranean species of the Acanthus genus of plants, which have deeply cut leaves with some similarity to those of the thistle and poppy. Both Acanthus mollis and the still more deeply cut Acanthus spinosus have been claimed as the main model, and ...

7. List of ornaments - Wikipedia

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   Generally indicated by a trill sign (jagged line) with a descending line at the beginning. Accento (pl. accenti) Italian, a popular vocal ornament, used in the late Renaissance and early Baroque; Lodovico Zacconi and Giovanni Battista Bovicelli, Giulio Caccini was a big proponent of its use. Consists of a dotted figure used to fill in or expand ...