TY - BOOK AU - Hammeken,Chris Askholt AU - Hansen,Maria Fabricius TI - Ornament and monstrosity in early modern art /edited by Chris Askholt Hammeken and Maria Fabricius Hansen T2 - Visual and material culture SN - 9789048535873 AV - NK1330 .O763 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - Amsterdam PB - Amsterdam University Press KW - Decoration and ornament KW - Europe KW - 16th century KW - Themes, motives KW - Mexico KW - Ixmiquilpan KW - Art, European KW - Art KW - Mural painting and decoration, Mexican KW - Mural painting and decoration KW - Monsters in art KW - Grotesque in art KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Ambiguous delights : ornamental grotesques and femaile monstrosity in sixteenth-century Italy; Maria Fabricius Hansen --; Dissonant symphonies : the Villa d'Este in Tivoli and the grotesque; Luke Morgan --; Outside-in : the intrusion of ornament into sacred narrative; Tianna Helena Uchacz --; 'That savage should mate with tame' : hybridity, indeterminacy, and the grotesque in the murals of San Miguel Arcángel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico); Barnaby Nygren --; Decoration in the desert : unsettling the order of architecture in the Certosa di San Martino; Maria-Anna Aristova --; Masquing/(un)masking : animation and the restless ornament of Fontainebleau; Lisa Andersen --; Sea-change : the whale in the Florentine Loggia; Chris Askholt Hammeken --; Ornament and agency : Vico's poetic monsters; Frances Connelly --; Trafficking the body : prolegomena to posthumanist theory of ornament to monstrosity; Jacob Wamberg; 2; b N2 - 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 -- UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=2380529&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -