The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance

The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance
Author: Clare Lapraik Guest
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2015-11-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004302085

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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.

Frame Work

Frame Work
Author: Alison Wright
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2019-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0300238843

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Frame Work explores how framing devices in the art of Renaissance Italy respond, and appeal, to viewers in their social, religious, and political context.

Ornament of the Italian Renaissance

Ornament of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Arthur L. Blakeslee
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2012-11-21
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486154122

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This glorious gallery of stunning architectural accents from Italy's Middle Ages has been assembled from a rare, early-twentieth-century publication: • Grotesques from carved panels of choir stalls • Breathtaking tombstone and ceiling ornaments • Sumptuous stone balcony panels ... and much more, all reproduced in sixty richly detailed illustrations. Designers and artists of every variety will revel in this modestly priced treasury of authentic Renaissance style.

A History of Ornament

A History of Ornament
Author: Alfred Dwight Foster Hamlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 726
Release: 1923
Genre: Decoration and ornament
ISBN:

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Ornamental Details of the Italian Renaissance

Ornamental Details of the Italian Renaissance
Author: Arthur L Blakeslee
Publisher: Palala Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre:
ISBN: 9781378058817

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Italian Renaissance Art

Italian Renaissance Art
Author: Christiane L. Joost-Gaugier
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-03-04
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1118306074

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Richly illustrated, and featuring detailed descriptions of works by pivotal figures in the Italian Renaissance, this enlightening volume traces the development of art and architecture throughout the Italian peninsula in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. A smart, elegant, and jargon-free analysis of the Italian Renaissance – what it was, what it means, and why we should study it Provides a sustained discussion of many great works of Renaissance art that will significantly enhance readers’ understanding of the period Focuses on Renaissance art and architecture as it developed throughout the Italian peninsula, from Venice to Sicily Situates the Italian Renaissance in the wider context of the history of art Includes detailed interpretation of works by a host of pivotal Renaissance artists, both well and lesser known