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Dalle de verre, from French: "glass slab", is a glass art technique that uses pieces of coloured glass set in a matrix of concrete and epoxy resin or other supporting material. Technique [ edit ]
The art historian Jennifer Raab of Yale University describes it as inherently contradictory: "it can delineate difference or emphasize unity". [2] She furthers that "the detail always points away from itself to something else–to other parts of a picture, to the work of art as a whole".
The first known example of a slab-serif letterform is woodblock lettering on an 1810 lottery advertisement from London. [7] Slab-serif type was perhaps first introduced by London typefounder Vincent Figgins under the name "Antique", appearing in a type-specimen dated 1815 (but probably issued in 1817). [8] [1] [b]
Detail of Pot's effigy with crest, helmet and pillow. The monument is made of limestone. [1] Pot's effigy is carved in the round so it can be seen from all sides. [18] His skin is painted in vermilion and lead white. [19] His body rests on a slab, and his head is nested within a stone cushion.
1898 illustration of abacuses of many capitals in various styles. In architecture, an abacus (from the Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax), ' slab '; or French abaque, tailloir; pl.: abacuses or abaci) [1] is a flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column, above the bell.
Examples of the ornamental use of lintels are in the hypostyle halls and slab stelas in ancient Egypt and the Indian rock-cut architecture of Buddhist temples in caves. Preceding prehistoric and subsequent Indian Buddhist temples were wooden buildings with structural load-bearing wood lintels across openings. The rock-cut excavated cave temples ...
Figgins is the first known typefounder to have released a slab-serif typeface, a style of typeface with thick block "slab" serifs at the ends of the strokes. His first caps-only type first appeared, under the name of Antique , in a specimen dated 1815 but containing paper with 1817 watermarks. [ 95 ]
Hierarchical proportion is a technique used in art, mostly in sculpture and painting, in which the artist uses unnatural proportion or scale to depict the relative importance of the figures in the artwork. For example, in Egyptian times, people of higher status would sometimes be drawn or sculpted larger than those of lower status.