Book Clare Lapraik Guest - Brill's Studies in Intellectual History / Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History: The Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance 245/10 in MOBI, DOC, DJV
9789004297968 9004297960 In this paradigm shifting study, developed through close textual readings and sensitive analysis of artworks, Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role of ornaments in pre-modern art and literature. Moving from art and thought in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance, she examines the understanding of ornaments arising from the Platonic, Aristotelian and Sophistic. The book views the Renaissance as a decisive point in the story of ornaments, when its subsequent identification with style and historicism is established. It asserts ornaments as a fundamental, not an accessory element in art and presents its restoration to theoretical dignity as essential to historical scholarship and aesthetic reflection. Book jacket.
9789004297968 9004297960 In this paradigm shifting study, developed through close textual readings and sensitive analysis of artworks, Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role of ornaments in pre-modern art and literature. Moving from art and thought in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance, she examines the understanding of ornaments arising from the Platonic, Aristotelian and Sophistic. The book views the Renaissance as a decisive point in the story of ornaments, when its subsequent identification with style and historicism is established. It asserts ornaments as a fundamental, not an accessory element in art and presents its restoration to theoretical dignity as essential to historical scholarship and aesthetic reflection. Book jacket.