The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance by Guest

The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004297968)

Vendor: Clare Lapraik Guest
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
$323.00
$323.00
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The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance by Guest

The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance

$323.00
The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance by Guest

The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance

$323.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.

Author: Clare Lapraik Guest
ISBN-10: 9004297960
ISBN-13: 9789004297968
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2015
Pages: 710
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.38lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.60d
By Clare Lapraik Guest
By Clare Lapraik Guest
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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.

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