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"Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore cognitively, visually demanding? Is it, conversely, precisely about perfection? To what extent is the abstract predicated on theorization of the unrepresentable and imperceptible? Does medieval abstraction pit aesthetics against metaphysics, or does it enrich it, or frame it, or both? Essays in this collection explore these and other questions that coalesce around three broad themes: medieval abstraction as the untethering of the image from what it purports to represent; abstraction as a vehicle for signification; and abstraction as a form of figuration. Contributors approach the concept of medieval abstraction from a multitude of perspectives-formal, semiotic, iconographic, material, phenomenological, epistemological"--Page 4 of cover.

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This two-volume catalogue is the second part of the catalogue raisonné devoted to architectural and topographical drawings from the Paper Museum commissioned and collected by Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588-1657) and his younger brother Carlo Antonio (1606-89). The first Part (A.IX), published in 2004, was dedicated to drawings of ancient Roman topography and architecture; this one covers Renaissance and seventeenth-century architectural drawings.These are now divided between the Royal Library at Windsor Castle, the British Museum and numerous other collections. Bringing them together emphasises the range and quality of the collection, and their comprehensive coverage of Renaissance architecture, including churches, palaces, villas and military fortifications, as well as designs for architectural fitments and decorative schemes. Many of these are live project drawings from the hands, workshops or immediate circles of distinguished sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architects, including Raphael, Giulio Romano, Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and Gianlorenzo Bernini. As such they are connected with some of the most important buildings constructed or remodelled during this period, among them St Peter's and St John Lateran in Rome and the princely palaces in Mantua, Piacenza and Granada in Spain. A smaller group of drawings is associated with architectural theory and includes a remarkable series of façade schemes here attributed to Sebastiano Serlio.The introductory essay in Volume One explores the distinctive character of this part of the dal Pozzo collection. It is followed by the catalogue entries, grouped into schemes for whole buildings, with the plans and elevations (or both) of ecclesiastical and secular works arranged according to their location in Italy or, occasionally, France, Spain and elsewhere. Volume Two is principally concerned with architectural fitments, such as church furnishings, doorways and chimneys, as well as painted decorations and carved ornaments. It then moves to military subjects, cataloguing drawings of fortifications, sieges and related subjects, followed by drawings of topographical views and two drawings, omitted in A.IX, of ancient decorative designs.

Drawing --- architectuur --- Renaissance --- ornaments --- British Renaissance-Baroque architecture styles --- Architecture --- architecture [discipline] --- ornamenten --- Pozzo, dal, Cassiano --- Architectural drawing --- Architectural drawing, Renaissance --- Decoration and ornament, Renaissance --- Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, --- Art collections --- Architecture [Renaissance ] --- Italy --- Decoration and ornament [Renaissance ] --- ornaments [object genre] --- Dessin d'architecture de la Renaissance --- Dessin décoratif --- Dal Pozzo, Cassiano --- Collections d'art --- Collections d'art. --- Dessin décoratif. --- Art collections. --- Architectural drawing - Italy - Catalogs --- Architectural drawing, Renaissance - Catalogs --- Decoration and ornament, Renaissance - Catalogs --- Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, - 1588-1657 --- Dal Pozzo, Cassiano, - 1588-1657 - Art collections - Catalogs --- Architectural drawing. --- Architectural drawing, Renaissance. --- Military architecture. --- Decoration and ornament, Renaissance. --- Dessin d'architecture de la Renaissance. --- Architecture militaire.

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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 - monstrosities even - that manifest themselves in a variety of ways. In some cases, dichotomies (between order and chaos, artificiality and nature, rational logic and imaginative creativity, etc.) may emerge. Elsewhere, a sense of agitation undermines structures of statuesque control or erupts into wild, unruly displays of constant genesis. The monstrosity of ornament is brought into play through strategies of hybridity and metamorphosis, or by the handling of scale, proportion, and space in ambiguous and discomforting ways that break with the laws of physical reality. An interest in strange exaggeration and curious artifice allows for such colossal ornamental attitude to thrive within early modern art.

Art, European --- Art, Renaissance --- Art --- Decoration and ornament --- Monsters in art --- grotesques --- ornaments [object genre] --- monsters [legendary beings] --- anno 1500-1799 --- Europe --- Art, Renaissance. --- Art, Occidental --- Art, Visual --- Art, Western (Western countries) --- Arts, Fine --- Arts, Visual --- Fine arts --- Iconography --- Occidental art --- Visual arts --- Western art (Western countries) --- Arts --- Aesthetics --- Renaissance art --- Art, Decorative --- Decorative art --- Decorative design --- Design, Decorative --- Nature in ornament --- Ornament --- Painting, Decorative --- Decorative arts --- Arts and crafts movement --- Art, Modern --- European art --- Nouveaux réalistes (Group of artists) --- Zaj (Group of artists) --- Early modern and Renaissance art, artificiality, playfulness, ambiguity, anxiety, ornament. --- Art européen --- Art de la Renaissance --- Art, Primitive --- Decoration and ornament, Primitive --- Art, European - 16th century --- Art - Europe - 16th century --- Decoration and ornament - Europe - 16th century --- Monsters in art - 16th century