Art and Antique Information: Glossary of terms and definitions
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- iconography: Knowledge and use of symbolic pictorial representations in art, often the meanings vary when interpreted by others.
- impasto: Italian term for very thickly applied paint onto the canvas resulting in obvious brushstrokes.
- Inlay: Wood ornamentation design pattern formed by insertion of contrasting exotic woods, metal, tortoiseshell, mother of pearl, ivory or other material set into grooves or channels of the furniture surface.
- Intaglio: An illustration or design cut into a surface.
- Intarsia: A decorative technique, similar to inlay, of sinking a design scene across an entire solid wood surface.
- International Style: Modern furniture style developed in Europe during the 1920s and 1930s most notably Germany's Bauhaus, with such artisans as Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. International Style hallmarks are an absence of decoration and simple lines utilizing industrial production and materials, such as chrome and glass, to impart a divergence from early furniture traditions.
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