Rosette (design)
A rosette is a round, stylized flower design.
Origin
The rosette derives from the natural shape of the botanical rosette, formed by leaves radiating out from the stem of a plant and visible even after the flowers have withered.
History
The rosette design is used extensively in sculptural objects from antiquity, appearing in Mesopotamia, and in funeral steles' decoration in Ancient Greece. The rosette was another important symbol of Ishtar which had originally belonged to Inanna along with the Star of Ishtar.[1]
It was adopted later in Romaneseque and Renaissance architecture, and also common in the art of Central Asia, spreading as far as India where it is used as a decorative motif in Greco-Buddhist art.
Ancient origins
One of the earliest appearances of the rosette in ancient art is in early fourth millennium
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Rosette design at the bottom of a statue of theGreco-Buddhist art found in Gandhara
Modern use
The formalised flower
Gallery
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Mohenjo-daro priest
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Mesopotamian, Sumerian bull
See also
- Six petal rosette
Footnotes
- ISBN 0-7141-1705-6, p. 156
- ^ Haddon, Alfred Cort. Evolution in Art: As Illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs, 1914, Scribner's, 364 pages
- ^ "Phaistos Fieldnotes" by C.Michael Hogan, The Modern Antiquarian, 2007
- ^ "Blame the Rosettes" by Eric Wilson, The New York Times, 3 August 2006
- ^ See rosette in politics
- ISBN 978-0415466608