Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Spanish term or phrase:
escudo de cueros recortados
English translation:
coat of arms in a strapwork cartouche
Added to glossary by
Paula Sepúlveda (X)
Jan 30, 2017 17:42
7 yrs ago
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Spanish term
escudo de cueros recortados
Spanish to English
Art/Literary
Architecture
cathedral
Text about the cathedral of Sto. Domingo de la Calzada: "lleva en el frente un escudo renacentista de cueros recortados con las armas del efigiado"
Here is an image of the blazon (on the stone coffin): http://www.lacalzada.com/capilla-mayor-absidiales/#jp-carous...
Thanks
Here is an image of the blazon (on the stone coffin): http://www.lacalzada.com/capilla-mayor-absidiales/#jp-carous...
Thanks
Proposed translations
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| 4 | coat of arms in a strapwork cartouche |
Charles Davis
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| 4 | cartouche |
patinba
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| 2 | shield in the form of a scroll |
Marie Wilson
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Proposed translations
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coat of arms in a strapwork cartouche
I think Pat is on the right lines here, and that cartouche is needed, but there are different styles of cartouche and "cueros recortados" is a specific term. I believe the equivalent is strapwork.
I got it from here:
"Strapwork (Rollwork, Bandwork, Cueros Recortados) "
http://colonialart.org/archives/subjects/ornamentation/strap...
Strapwork isn't always like this. Sometimes it imitates intersecting bands of leather, but the idea of imitating leather is the link.
"n the history of art and design, strapwork is a stylised representation in ornament of leather straps, consisting of flattened strips or bands of curling leather, parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings, and often interwoven in a geometric pattern."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strapwork
But there are a number of references to strapwork cartouches in very respectable sources that look very like the cueros recortados we're dealing with. Here are a couple of examples of the latter in addition to yours:
"Escudo cuartelado en cruz: 1º torre con cuatro almenas, 2º y 3º buey rampante mirando a la derecha, 4º torre con tres almenas. Timbre de hidalguía siniestrado y lambrequines de cueros recortados."
First picture on page
http://gensobrarbe.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/piedra-armera-de-...
"Escudo franciscano en Santa María de Rocamador en Estella (Navarra). Puede apreciarse el escudo franciscano detrás de los cueros recortados."
http://castellano212.rssing.com/chan-9251184/all_p8.html
This is a little way down the page. Here's the picture that goes with this text:
http://www.sasua.net/estella/pegarlogo.asp?f=rocamador/foto1...
Now the English expression:
"Coat of arms of unidentified cleric from the Phelipeaux family: shield in strapwork cartouche"
See illustration
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/coll...
"Strapwork cartouche with coat-of-arms from the monument to Sir Edward Coke († 1634) in St Mary, Tittleshall, Norfolk, by Nicholas Stone the Elder (1638)"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rubens1577/9474680190
"Fig. 82. Details showing strapwork in the plaster decoration of the Galerie François Ier at Fontainebleau (1530s)"
http://clairegapper.info/the-london-evidence.html
Illustration: http://clairegapper.info/assets/images/28.jpg
And so on.
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"Set within a scrolling strapwork cartouche, each medallion is surmounted by a vigorously modeled, grimacing mask"
Illustration just below this text
Italian and Spanish Sculpture: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection
https://books.google.es/books?id=GHw1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA...
"curved pediment with Royal coat of arms in a strapwork cartouche"
http://www.racns.co.uk/sculptures.asp?action=getsurvey&id=81
Illustration: see image 2
http://www.racns.co.uk/sculptures.asp?action=getsurvey&id=81
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Not all cartouches are like this. Heraldic cartouches tend to be ornate, as you would expect, but in a number of different styles. You can get an idea of the range of possibilities from this Victoria and Albert Museum page:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/engraved-ornament-project/cartouch...
Nor is all "cueros recortados" decoration the same, but what all examples have in common is imitating the appearance of leather, usually with curled ends or edges which look like scrolls (indeed they are a kind of scroll).
More examples, still from impeccable sources:
"Strapwork Cartouche with Putti and a Lion's Mask"
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/367102
"This print depicts a strapwork cartouche. Strapwork is a type of decoration which mimics the appearance of curled and intertwined bands of a flat material such as leather or sheet metal. Its origins are in early 16th century Italian art, but the design was also popular throughout Northern Europe from about 1535-1630. A cartouche is an elaborately decorated frame which can contain words, a picture or, as in this print, be left blank."
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O656404/print-vredeman-de-...
"There are also coats of arms of Earls of Winchester and of Earls of Southampton drawn in columns either side of the map, each shield having a caption in a strapwork cartouche."
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/speed1/s...
The image is this: http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/speed1/s...
This last example shows the distinction. The title of the map is enclosed in a cartouche, which is a fairly plane frame imitating the appearance of stone, which in turn in inside a curly strapwork cartouche:
"not coloured & title cartouche & strapwork cartouche"
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantscat/html/hmap0253.htm
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Note added at 15 hrs (2017-01-31 09:13:19 GMT)
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And lastly a Spanish example to show we really are dealing with equivalent terms, and that "cueros recortados" means imitating the appearance of pieces of leather cut to shape, with scrolling edges:
"en las esquinas podemos observar escudos eclesiásticos y tarjas de cueros recortados con decoraciones de frutas en su interior."
http://artevalladolid.blogspot.com.es/2014_02_01_archive.htm...
The image that goes with this text is the one on the left here:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wC3Z2pC9RGU/Uvzl_rO8blI/AAAAAAAANg...
I got it from here:
"Strapwork (Rollwork, Bandwork, Cueros Recortados) "
http://colonialart.org/archives/subjects/ornamentation/strap...
Strapwork isn't always like this. Sometimes it imitates intersecting bands of leather, but the idea of imitating leather is the link.
"n the history of art and design, strapwork is a stylised representation in ornament of leather straps, consisting of flattened strips or bands of curling leather, parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings, and often interwoven in a geometric pattern."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strapwork
But there are a number of references to strapwork cartouches in very respectable sources that look very like the cueros recortados we're dealing with. Here are a couple of examples of the latter in addition to yours:
"Escudo cuartelado en cruz: 1º torre con cuatro almenas, 2º y 3º buey rampante mirando a la derecha, 4º torre con tres almenas. Timbre de hidalguía siniestrado y lambrequines de cueros recortados."
First picture on page
http://gensobrarbe.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/piedra-armera-de-...
"Escudo franciscano en Santa María de Rocamador en Estella (Navarra). Puede apreciarse el escudo franciscano detrás de los cueros recortados."
http://castellano212.rssing.com/chan-9251184/all_p8.html
This is a little way down the page. Here's the picture that goes with this text:
http://www.sasua.net/estella/pegarlogo.asp?f=rocamador/foto1...
Now the English expression:
"Coat of arms of unidentified cleric from the Phelipeaux family: shield in strapwork cartouche"
See illustration
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/coll...
"Strapwork cartouche with coat-of-arms from the monument to Sir Edward Coke († 1634) in St Mary, Tittleshall, Norfolk, by Nicholas Stone the Elder (1638)"
https://www.flickr.com/photos/rubens1577/9474680190
"Fig. 82. Details showing strapwork in the plaster decoration of the Galerie François Ier at Fontainebleau (1530s)"
http://clairegapper.info/the-london-evidence.html
Illustration: http://clairegapper.info/assets/images/28.jpg
And so on.
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Note added at 4 hrs (2017-01-30 21:53:12 GMT)
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"Set within a scrolling strapwork cartouche, each medallion is surmounted by a vigorously modeled, grimacing mask"
Illustration just below this text
Italian and Spanish Sculpture: Catalogue of the J. Paul Getty Museum Collection
https://books.google.es/books?id=GHw1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA97&lpg=PA...
"curved pediment with Royal coat of arms in a strapwork cartouche"
http://www.racns.co.uk/sculptures.asp?action=getsurvey&id=81
Illustration: see image 2
http://www.racns.co.uk/sculptures.asp?action=getsurvey&id=81
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Note added at 15 hrs (2017-01-31 09:04:17 GMT)
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Not all cartouches are like this. Heraldic cartouches tend to be ornate, as you would expect, but in a number of different styles. You can get an idea of the range of possibilities from this Victoria and Albert Museum page:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/blog/engraved-ornament-project/cartouch...
Nor is all "cueros recortados" decoration the same, but what all examples have in common is imitating the appearance of leather, usually with curled ends or edges which look like scrolls (indeed they are a kind of scroll).
More examples, still from impeccable sources:
"Strapwork Cartouche with Putti and a Lion's Mask"
http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/367102
"This print depicts a strapwork cartouche. Strapwork is a type of decoration which mimics the appearance of curled and intertwined bands of a flat material such as leather or sheet metal. Its origins are in early 16th century Italian art, but the design was also popular throughout Northern Europe from about 1535-1630. A cartouche is an elaborately decorated frame which can contain words, a picture or, as in this print, be left blank."
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O656404/print-vredeman-de-...
"There are also coats of arms of Earls of Winchester and of Earls of Southampton drawn in columns either side of the map, each shield having a caption in a strapwork cartouche."
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/speed1/s...
The image is this: http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantsmap/hantsmap/speed1/s...
This last example shows the distinction. The title of the map is enclosed in a cartouche, which is a fairly plane frame imitating the appearance of stone, which in turn in inside a curly strapwork cartouche:
"not coloured & title cartouche & strapwork cartouche"
http://www.geog.port.ac.uk/webmap/hantscat/html/hmap0253.htm
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Note added at 15 hrs (2017-01-31 09:13:19 GMT)
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And lastly a Spanish example to show we really are dealing with equivalent terms, and that "cueros recortados" means imitating the appearance of pieces of leather cut to shape, with scrolling edges:
"en las esquinas podemos observar escudos eclesiásticos y tarjas de cueros recortados con decoraciones de frutas en su interior."
http://artevalladolid.blogspot.com.es/2014_02_01_archive.htm...
The image that goes with this text is the one on the left here:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wC3Z2pC9RGU/Uvzl_rO8blI/AAAAAAAANg...
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Comment: "Thank you!"
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shield in the form of a scroll
This is how I see it. "Escudo con las armas" is coat of arms, and "cuero recortados" is a scroll or parchment. From the photo it can be seen that the coat of arms is on a stone scroll.
A renaissance shield in the form of a scroll with the coat of arms of ...
Example of shield:
"The arms in the quarters of the shield are two distinct coats used by the de Bermingham family, who held the manor in the 13th century (and perhaps from the time of the Conquest) until 1527, when Edward de Birmingham was deprived of his property by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, by means of a false charge of riot. The bendwise lozenges appear on the shield of an effigy in the church of St. Martins-in-the-Bull Ring, believed to be William de Bermingham."
http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Birmingham
A renaissance shield in the form of a scroll with the coat of arms of ...
Example of shield:
"The arms in the quarters of the shield are two distinct coats used by the de Bermingham family, who held the manor in the 13th century (and perhaps from the time of the Conquest) until 1527, when Edward de Birmingham was deprived of his property by John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, by means of a false charge of riot. The bendwise lozenges appear on the shield of an effigy in the church of St. Martins-in-the-Bull Ring, believed to be William de Bermingham."
http://www.ngw.nl/heraldrywiki/index.php?title=Birmingham
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cartouche
Cartouche.
1. Carved element resembling a sheet of parchment, with its ends or corners rolled, usually carrying an inscription.
2. Ornamental or inscribed tablet, as in a mural funerary memorial, with an elaborate scroll-like frame resembling curling pieces of parchment, common in Baroque work.
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You do not need any elaboration, the definition of cartouche exactly meets the description in your context.
1. a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends, used ornamentally or bearing an inscription.
2.
an ornate frame around a design or inscription.
Strapwork looks quite different, as you can see if you Google strapwork images
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CARTOUCHE: It was particularly used of a sculptured tablet in the shape of a partly unrolled scroll on which could be placed an inscription or device. The arms of the popes and ecclesiastics of high birth were borne on an oval cartouche (Encyclopaedia Británica)
Again, no mention of strapwork.
1. Carved element resembling a sheet of parchment, with its ends or corners rolled, usually carrying an inscription.
2. Ornamental or inscribed tablet, as in a mural funerary memorial, with an elaborate scroll-like frame resembling curling pieces of parchment, common in Baroque work.
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Note added at 7 hrs (2017-01-31 00:58:17 GMT)
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You do not need any elaboration, the definition of cartouche exactly meets the description in your context.
1. a carved tablet or drawing representing a scroll with rolled-up ends, used ornamentally or bearing an inscription.
2.
an ornate frame around a design or inscription.
Strapwork looks quite different, as you can see if you Google strapwork images
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Note added at 20 hrs (2017-01-31 14:18:39 GMT)
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CARTOUCHE: It was particularly used of a sculptured tablet in the shape of a partly unrolled scroll on which could be placed an inscription or device. The arms of the popes and ecclesiastics of high birth were borne on an oval cartouche (Encyclopaedia Británica)
Again, no mention of strapwork.
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Charles Davis
: No, a cartouche is simply a frame, often though not always ornate. Many cartouches have other decorative styles and "strapwork cartouche" is this. I do not think the British Museum and Nikolaus Pevsner would have got it wrong.
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