Gulru (Hrsg.) Necipoglu

Histories of Ornament

From Global to Local

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This lavishly illustrated volume is the first major global history of ornament from the Middle Ages to today. Crossing historical and geographical boundaries in unprecedented ways and considering the role of ornament in both art and architecture, Histories of Ornament offers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroamerican traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals how the long history of ornament illuminates it… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Payne, Alina (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-691-16728-2
EAN: 9780691167282
Produktnummer: 18882642
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 464 S.
Masse: H30.6 cm x B22.7 cm x D3.5 cm 2'174 g
Abbildungen: 206 color + 25 b/w illus.
Gewicht: 2174
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

Gülru Necipoglu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author of The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton) and The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Alina Payne is the Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. She is the author of The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance and From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism.