Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art
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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art

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Yes, you can access Ornament and Monstrosity in Early Modern Art by Chris Askholt Hammeken,Maria Fabricius Hansen, Chris Askholt Hammeken, Maria Fabricius Hansen in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Architecture & History of Renaissance Art. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. Grotesques
  5. 1. Ambiguous Delights: Ornamental Grotesques and Female Monstrosity in Sixteenth-Century Italy
  6. 2. Dissonant Symphonies: The Villa dā€™Este in Tivoli and the Grotesque
  7. Part II. Sacred Space and Narrative
  8. 3. Outside-In: The Intrusion of Ornament into Sacred Narrative
  9. 4. ā€˜That savage should mate with tameā€™: Hybridity, Indeterminacy, and the Grotesque in the Murals of San Miguel ArcĆ”ngel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico)
  10. 5. Decoration in the Desert: Unsettling the Order of Architecture in the Certosa di San Martino
  11. Part III. Agency and Ornament Enlivened
  12. 6. Masquing/(Un)Masking: Animation and the Restless Ornament of Fontainebleau
  13. 7. Sea-Change: The Whale in the Florentine Loggia
  14. 8. Ornament and Agency: Vicoā€™s Poetic Monsters
  15. Part IV. A Historical Perspective
  16. 9. Trafficking the Body: Prolegomena to a Posthumanist Theory of Ornament and Monstrosity
  17. Index