{{more sources|date=May 2025}} {{Wiktionary}} [[Image:Orna131-Pilasterschaefte.png|thumb|right|Margent decoration sculpted in plaster from Meyer's ''Handbook of Ornament'']]
In architecture and furniture design, '''margent''' is an ornament consisting of a vertical arrangement of flowers leaves, or hanging vines. It was common in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. This motif was developed as a complement to other decorative ornaments, hanging as "drops" at the ends of a festoon or swag. Margent can be used to accentuate the vertical lines of window frames and centered in ornamental panels.
==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="250px"> File:Desiderio da settignano, tabernacolo del ss. sacramento, 1461, 11.JPG|Renaissance margent on the San Lorenzo Tabernacle, by Desiderio da Settignano and Baccio da Montelupo, 1461, marble, Basilica of San Lorenzo, Florence, Italy
File:Santa-Maria-dei-Miracoli Main Portal.JPG|Renaissance margents on two pilasters of the entrance of the Santa Maria dei Miracoli, Venice, by Pietro Lombardo, 1481-1489
File:Entrée escalier SO.jpg|Renaissance margents on two pilasters in Hôtel d'Alluye, Blois, France, unknown architect or sculptor, 1498 (or 1500)-1508
File:Door with the emblem of Francis I - OA 5941 - Louvre (01).jpg|Renaissance margents on two pilasters of a door with the emblem of Francis I, 1515-1547, oak and metal, Louvre
File:Glasgow Central railway station - geograph.org.uk - 5061162.jpg|Renaissance Revival margents on pilasters of the Hielanman's Umbrella, Glasgow, UK, unknown architect, 1879
File:Detail of the pilaster between a pair of windows, on the D.A. Sturdza House from Bucharest (Romania).jpg|Renaissance Revival margent on a pilaster of the Dimitrie Sturdza House (Strada Arthur Verona no. 13-15), Bucharest, Romania, unknown architect, 1883<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/merimee/PA00117979|website=pop.culture.gouv.fr|title=Palais du Commerce|author=|access-date=18 September 2023}}</ref>
File:18 Strada Grigore Cobălcescu, Bucharest (06).jpg|Renaissance Revival margent on a pilaster of Strada Grigore Cobălcescu no. 18, Bucharest, unknown architect, {{circa}}1890 </gallery>
==See also== * Marginalia
==References== {{reflist}} {{commonscat|Meyer's Ornament}} *{{cite book | first = Philippa | last = Lewis | author2 = G. Darley | year = 1986 | title = Dictionary of Ornament | location = New York | publisher = Pantheon | isbn = 0-394-50931-5 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoforna00phil }} *{{cite book | first = Abraham | last = Swan | year = 1757 | title = Collection of Design in Architecture}} Volume II *{{cite book | first = Franz Sales | last = Meyer | year = 1898 | title= Handbook of Ornament}} {{Ornaments}}
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