Ornament and the Grotesque Fantastical Decoration from Antiquity to Art Nouveau

Name: Ornament and the Grotesque Fantastical Decoration from Antiquity to Art Nouveau
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ISBN: 9780500238561

ISBN-10: 0500238561

ISBN-13: 9780500238561

Edition: 2008

Authors: Alessandra Zamperini

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A lavish survey of the grotesque style in European painting and decoration, from Roman times to the late nineteenth century. In the fifteenth century, the ruins of Nero's Domus Aurea were discovered in Rome. The first explorers to enter the interior of this spectacular palace complex had the sensation of finding themselves in a series of grottoes, and this is why the fanciful frescoes and floor mosaics discovered there were called "grotesques." A fashionable form of ornamentation in ancient Rome, grotesques consist of loosely connected motifs, often incorporating human figures, birds, animals, and monsters, and arranged around medallions filled with painted scenes. Fifteenth-century artists…

Book details

List price: $95.00
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication date: 10/27/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 308
Size: 11.10" wide x 13.25" long x 1.35" tall
Weight: 6.116
Language: English

Alessandra Zamperini completed her doctorate at the University of Verona. She has written widely on Italian art history from the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth centuries.




Roman Origins



The 'Fantastic' in the Middle Ages



The Discovery of the Domus Aurea



Raphael and the Golden Age



A Return to Classicism



The Rococo: Arabesques, Singeries and Chinoiseries



Neoclassicism: Ancient Forms and Nem Thoughts



The 19th-Century Revival


Glossary


Bibliography


Picture Credits


Index of Names


Index of Places