The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-29796-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 245/10, 692 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 1117 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History

In this paradigm shifting study, developed through close textual readings and sensitive analysis of artworks, Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role of ornament in pre-modern art and literature. Moving from art and thought in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance, she examines the understandings of ornament arising from the Platonic, Aristotelian and Sophistic traditions, and the tensions which emerged from these varied meanings. The book views the Renaissance as a decisive point in the story of ornament, when its subsequent identification with style and historicism are established. It asserts ornament as a fundamental, not an accessory element in art and presents its restoration to theoretical dignity as essential to historical scholarship and aesthetic reflection.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guest, Clare Lapraik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunst: Rezeption, Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
List of illustrations
Acknowledgements

Introduction

PART ONE ANCIENT PROLEGOMENA
Chapter 1 Kosmos
Chapter 2 Rhetoric and Illusion
Chapter 3 Cosmic Décor

PART TWO FRAGMENT AND DESIGN
Chapter 4 Architecture and the City
Chapter 5 Garland and Mosaic in literary Humanism
Chapter 6 Topics and Style
Chapter 7 Ornament and Disegno, Colour and Perspective
Chapter 8 The City recovered, Triumph and Time
Chapter 9 The Emblematic Continuum
Chapter 10 Spolia and Ornamental Design
Chapter 11 The Grottesche Part 1. Fragment to Field
Chapter 12 The Grottesche Part 2. Signs, Topography and the Dream of Painting

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Clare Lapraik Guest, Ph.D. (2004), Trinity College Dublin, is Visiting Research Fellow at that University. Her publications in Italian Renaissance art and thought include The Muses and their Afterlife in Post-Classical Europe (Warburg Institute, 2014), co-edited with Kathleen Christian, Claudia Wedepohl.