cassone

American  

[kuh-soh-nee, kahs-saw-ne] / kəˈsoʊ ni, kɑsˈsɔ nɛ /

noun

• cassoni
  plural

1. a large Italian chest of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, usually highly ornamented.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• cassoni
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of cassone

1880–85; < Italian, equivalent to cass ( a ) box ( see case ²) + -one augmentative suffix

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Example Sentences

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cassone cassoni

The second piece is a panoramic picture of a procession in Ancient Rome that once was a panel of a cassone, an expensive chest for clothes and domestic items.

From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2015

The three screens carry four pictures—two long and narrow, evidently panels from a cassone; the others quite small.

From A Wanderer in Venice by Harry Morley

There are the thousand francs safe to hand in the cassone, and what, pray, is it we miss?

From Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes by Erle Elsworth Clippinger

A faded Flemish tapestry, a curtained picture, an old Italian cassone, and an almost empty bookcase,—that was all that it seemed to contain, besides a chair and a table.

From The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The "Apollo and Daphne" in the Seminario at Venice was probably a panel of a cassone; but although intended for so humble a place, it is instinct with rare poetic feeling and beauty.

From Giorgione by Herbert Cook

Miriam Schapiro, Brach's wife, shows a series of panels, similar in motif to Renaissance cassoni, or hope chests, in which she paints the fertility symbol of an egg.

From Time Magazine Archive

Florentine, Third Quarter of XV Century Richly ornamented cassoni to hold the bridal trousseau constitute an important class of Renaissance furniture.

From Handbook of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts by Joseph Breck

He made two large inlaid chests or cassoni, adorned with all the skill of a worker in tarsia, or wood-mosaic, and carried these with him to King Matthias Corvinus, of Hungary.

From Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts by John Addington Symonds

Here the spirit of luxury was satisfied by beautiful designs for ornaments, dress stuffs, tapestries, vases and "cassoni," &c., which brought beauty into every life, and made each house a poem.

From Fra Bartolommeo by Flora Kendrick

With the fourth addition on Morelli's list we pass into a totally different sphere of art—the decoration of cassoni, and other pieces of furniture.

From Giorgione by Herbert Cook

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