bargello
Americannoun
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a straight stitch worked in a high and low relief pattern to form a variety of zigzag or oblique designs.
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needlepoint work or a design done in such stitches, especially the traditional needlepoint created by a classic stitch Florentine stitch done in diagonal lines.
Etymology
Origin of bargello
First recorded in 1920–25; allegedly after a set of chairs embroidered with such a stitch in the Bargello, a museum in Florence
Example Sentences
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The original is kept in the nearby Bargello museum.
From BBC
The exhibition is spread across two venues, the Palazzo Strozzi and the nearby Bargello, bringing together 130 works from 50 collections.
From Washington Post
The exhibition continues at the Bargello, where the huge 14th-century hall on the upper floor of the palace, the “Donatello Room,” has been rearranged.
From New York Times
“Donatello, The Renaissance” will be in the Palazzo Strozzi and the Bargello Museum until July 31, and it is the kind of exhibition you might cross an ocean to see.
From New York Times
“Almost nobody comes to see Donatello’s ‘David’ in the Bargello, the first nude statue of the Renaissance,” lamented Mary McCarthy in 1959 in “The Stones of Florence,” a masterpiece of American travel writing.
From New York Times
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