The scroll in art is an element of ornament and graphic design featuring spirals and rolling incomplete circle motifs, some of which resemble the edge-on view of a book or document in scroll form, though many types are … See more

Continuous scroll decoration has a very long history, and such patterns were an essential element of classical and medieval decoration. The use of scrolls in ornament goes back … See more

Scrollwork (in the popular definition) is most commonly associated with Baroque architecture, though it saw uses in almost every decorative … See more

• Vitruvian scroll See more

Typically in true scrolls the main "stem" lines do not cross over each other, or not significantly. When crossing stems become a dominant feature in the design, terms such as interlace or arabesque are used instead. Many scrolls run along a relatively narrow … See more

In one common spreading type for wide areas, the basic form of the arabesque is a heart shape formed from two confronted volutes on stems, … See more

• Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome. Sides of the apse mosaic, c. 432.
• Basilica di San Clemente, Rome, apse mosaic, c. 1200. See more