Definitions

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  • noun A type of needlepoint embroidery, traditionally in wool on canvas, consisting of upright flat stitches laid in a mathematical pattern to create motifs.

Etymologies

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After a series of chairs found in the Bargello palace in Florence, which have a "flame stitch" pattern.

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Examples

  • And I shall look once more on the Loggia de 'Lanzi, and see Cellini's young _contadino_ masquerading as Perseus, and in my heart I shall remember the little wax figure he made for a model, now in Bargello, which is so much more beautiful than this young giant.

    Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa With Sixteen Illustrations In Colour By William Parkinson And Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition Edward Hutton 1922

  • The Bargello was the chief constable or sheriff in Italian towns.

    The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Cellini, Benvenuto, 1500-1571 1910

  • The Bargello was the chief constable or sheriff in Italian towns.

    XLVII 1909

  • The Bargello was the chief constable or sheriff in Italian towns.

    Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini Benvenuto Cellini 1535

  • This gentleman mentioned incidentally one day, in the course of conversation, that there once and probably still existed in the "Bargello," anciently both the prison, and the palace of the republic, an authentic portrait of Dante.

    The Crayon Papers Washington Irving 1821

  • Around 1636-38, working for the Borghese family, he portrayed her in a tender, lifelike rendering now in the collection of the Bargello Museum in Florence.

    In San Francisco, a Duped Lover's Stony Revenge Judith H. Dobrzynski 2011

  • Museo Nazionale del Bargello 'The Money-changer and his Wife' 1540 by Marinus van Reymerswaele Has an exhibition ever been better timed?

    For the Love of Money Andrew McKie 2011

  • Museo Nazionale del Bargello (coins), Museo del Tessuto Gold florin (1252-1303); Florentine workshop 'Moneybag' Appropriately enough, the first two things the visitor sees glitter.

    For the Love of Money Andrew McKie 2011

  • Of course, now the man wants his money back, which I, of course, will pay him as a means of protecting Donatello and keeping him out of a cell in the Bargello.

    The Poet Prince KATHLEEN MCGOWAN 2010

  • On July 21, 1840, he found the fresco, covered over with whitewash, on a wall in the Bargello.

    American Connections James Burke 2007

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