Understanding of Ornament in the Italian Renaissance

Clare Lapraik Guest, Ph.D. (2004), Trinity College Dublin, is Visiting Research Fellow at that University. Her publications in Italian Renaissance art and thought include The Muses and their Afterlife in Post-Classical Europe (Warburg Institute, 2014), co-edited with Kathleen Christian, Claudia Wedepohl.

• AbbreviationsList of illustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART ONE ANCIENT PROLEGOMENAChapter 1 KosmosChapter 2 Rhetoric and Illusion Chapter 3 Cosmic DécorPART TWO FRAGMENT AND DESIGNChapter 4 Architecture and the CityChapter 5 Garland and Mosaic in literary HumanismChapter 6 Topics and StyleChapter 7 Ornament and Disegno, Colour and PerspectiveChapter 8 The City recovered, Triumph and Time Chapter 9 The Emblematic ContinuumChapter 10 Spolia and Ornamental DesignChapter 11 The Grottesche Part 1. Fragment to FieldChapter 12 The Grottesche Part 2. Signs, Topography and the Dream of Painting ConclusionBibliographyIndex

“substantial, deeply learned study […] excellent book […]. One is grateful for the indexes of names, places and subjects which will guide consultation and re-reading. And the illustrations are so apt and so beautiful, and bring together so many of the theoretical and physical elements, that they form a harmonious accompaniment that is also a constant source of astonishment.” - Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, Trinity College Dublin (Emeritus), in: Óenach: JFMRSI Reviews 8.1 (2016), pp. 12-19