The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance

Clare Lapraik Guest

ISBN 10: 9004297960 / ISBN 13: 9789004297968

Published by Koninklijke Brill BV Nov 2015, 2015

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Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance
• Publisher: Koninklijke Brill BV Nov 2015
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004297960
• ISBN 13: 9789004297968
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 244W x 159H x 43D millimeters 244 millimeters width by 159 millimeters height by 43 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1117 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.