Ornament and monstrosity in early modern art /edited by Chris Askholt Hammeken and Maria Fabricius Hansen.
- Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource (281 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Visual and material culture ; 13 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Ambiguous delights : ornamental grotesques and femaile monstrosity in sixteenth-century Italy / Dissonant symphonies : the Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the grotesque / Outside-in : the intrusion of ornament into sacred narrative / 'That savage should mate with tame' : hybridity, indeterminacy, and the grotesque in the murals of San Miguel Arcángel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico) / Decoration in the desert : unsettling the order of architecture in the Certosa di San Martino / Masquing/(un)masking : animation and the restless ornament of Fontainebleau / Sea-change : the whale in the Florentine Loggia / Ornament and agency : Vico's poetic monsters / Trafficking the body : prolegomena to posthumanist theory of ornament to monstrosity / Maria Fabricius Hansen -- Luke Morgan -- Tianna Helena Uchacz -- Barnaby Nygren -- Maria-Anna Aristova -- Lisa Andersen -- Chris Askholt Hammeken -- Frances Connelly -- Jacob Wamberg.
Early modern art features a remarkable fascination with ornament, both as decorative device and compositional strategy, across artistic media and genres. Interestingly, the inventive, elegant manifestations of ornament in the art of the period often include layers of disquieting paradoxes, creating tensions --
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