Cartilage baroque

Cartilage baroque denotes a stylistic period around the middle of the 17th-century in Northern Europe, particularly in Scandinavia and Germany. Dealing mainly with interior architecture, it marks the transition from High-Renaissance and Manierism to established Baroque, placing it during the years 1620-1660.

Cartilage baroque draws heavily on established Renaissance forms, but gets its distinctive style from added ornamental elements, such as leaves and garlands, and a suppressed curvature resembling that of human ear cartilage.

Andrew Lawrenceson Smith is seen as one of the most famous representatives for the cartilage baroque, specially for his works in the Stavanger Cathedral.

It is known as Bruskbarokk in Norwegian, bruskbarok in Danish and Knorpelbarock in German.