# Cartilage Baroque

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**Cartilage Baroque**, or ***Bruskbarokk*** and similar terms, denotes a stylistic period centering around the middle of the 17th century in Northern Europe, particularly in [Scandinavia](/source/Scandinavia) and [Germany](/source/Germany). Primarily a style of [ornament](/source/Ornament_(art)), it is known as *Bruskbarokk* in Norwegian, *Bruskbarok* in Danish and ***Knorpelbarock*** in German (all these use the local words for [cartilage](/source/Cartilage)),[1] and *style cartilage* may be encountered in French, often referring to work in [Alsace](/source/Alsace). However, the various terms can be applied to a bewildering range of styles of [Northern Mannerist](/source/Northern_Mannerist) and [Baroque](/source/Baroque) ornament. In English these terms are mainly found in translated texts from European languages.

There is much use of [strapwork](/source/Strapwork) in which, instead of leather or paper forms being imitated, the shapes may give the impression of imitating flayed skin or cartilage, including the cartilage giving the ear its shape, whether or not this was actually the intention, hence the origin of the name.[2] The style has some relation to the [auricular style](/source/Auricular_style) of the same period, which is seen in its purest and most famous form in Dutch silverwork.[3] This does take its name from resembling somewhat the shape of the ear, as does the German term *Ohrmuschelstil*.

Dealing mainly with interior architecture, it marked the transition from [High-Renaissance](/source/High_Renaissance) and [Mannerism](/source/Mannerism) to established [Baroque](/source/Baroque), placing it during the years 1620–1660. Cartilage Baroque draws heavily on established [Renaissance art](/source/Renaissance_art) forms, but gets its distinctive style from added ornamental elements, such as leaves and garlands, and a suppressed curvature.

The Scottish craftsman, woodcutter and painter [Andrew Lawrenceson Smith](/source/Andrew_Lawrenceson_Smith) is seen as one of the leading examples in the use of cartilage baroque, especially for his work in [Stavanger Cathedral](/source/Stavanger_Cathedral).[4]

## See also

- [Stavanger Renaissance](/source/Stavanger_Renaissance)
- [Auricular style](/source/Auricular_style)

## Notes

1. Håvard Hagen. ["bruskbarokk"](https://snl.no/bruskbarokk). Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 December 2016.

1. Frederiks, p. xiv

1. Frederiks, p. xiv

1. Kjartan Fløgstad. ["Anders Smith, Billedskjærer, Maler"](https://nbl.snl.no/Anders_Smith). Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 1 December 2016.

## References

- Frederiks, J.W., *Wrought Plate of North and South-Holland from the Renaissance Until the End of the Eighteenth Century*, 2014, Springer, ISBN 9401036977, 9789401036979, [google books](https://books.google.com/books?id=dnHyCAAAQBAJ&pg=PR24)

## Further reading

- Roberts, Daniela, ["German Knorpelwerk: Auricular dissemination in prints, woodcarving, stucco and painted wall decorations, 1620-1670"](https://auricularstyleframes.wordpress.com/2016/10/23/german-knorpelwerk-auricular-dissemination-in-prints-woodcarving-and-painted-wall-decorations-1620-70/). Conference paper.
- Platou, Dorothea S. (1928) *Anders L. Smith : en norsk billedskjærer fra 1600 årene* (Stavanger : Dreyers grafiske anstalt)

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