TY - BOOK ID - 3514841 TI - The understanding of ornament in the Italian Renaissance PY - 2016 VL - 245 10 SN - 9789004297968 9004297960 9004302085 9789004302082 PB - Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Decoration and ornament KW - Decoration and ornament, Renaissance. KW - Decoration and ornament, Renaissance KW - Décoration et ornement KW - Décoration et ornement de la Renaissance KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophie KW - Italy. KW - Décoration et ornement KW - Décoration et ornement de la Renaissance KW - ornaments KW - Italian Renaissance-Baroque styles KW - Architecture KW - Applied arts. Arts and crafts KW - anno 1500-1599 KW - Italy KW - Philosophy KW - ornaments [object genre] KW - Renaissance decoration and ornament KW - Art, Decorative KW - Decorative art KW - Decorative design KW - Design, Decorative KW - Nature in ornament KW - Ornament KW - Painting, Decorative KW - Art KW - Decorative arts KW - Arts and crafts movement KW - E-books KW - Decoration and ornament, Primitive KW - Decoration and ornament, Renaissance - Italy KW - Decoration and ornament - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3514841 AB - In this paradigm shifting study, developed through close textual readings and sensitive analysis of artworks, Clare Lapraik Guest re-evaluates the central role of ornament in pre-modern art and literature. Moving from art and thought in antiquity to the Italian Renaissance, she examines the understandings of ornament arising from the Platonic, Aristotelian and Sophistic traditions, and the tensions which emerged from these varied meanings. The book views the Renaissance as a decisive point in the story of ornament, when its subsequent identification with style and historicism are established. It asserts ornament as a fundamental, not an accessory element in art and presents its restoration to theoretical dignity as essential to historical scholarship and aesthetic reflection. ER -