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Author Guest, Clare Lapraik.

Title The understanding of ornament in the Italian Renaissance / by Clare Lapraik Guest.

Publication Info. Boston : Brill, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Brill's studies in intellectual history, 0920-8607 ; volume 245
Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; volume 10
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 245.
Brill's studies in intellectual history. Brill's studies on art, art history, and intellectual history ; v. 10.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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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Subject Decoration and ornament -- Philosophy.
Decoration and ornament -- Philosophy.
Decoration and ornament.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance -- Italy.
Decoration and ornament, Renaissance.
Italy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: 9789004302082
(GyWOH)har155025983
Print version: Guest, Clare Lapraik. Understanding of ornament in the Italian Renaissance. Boston : Brill, 2015 9789004297968 9004297960 (DLC) 2015027398 (OCoLC)913957679
ISBN 9789004302082 (electronic book)
9004302085 (electronic book)
9789004297968 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9004297960
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004302082