Decorative Games
Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)
Published on 11. March 2011
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-61149-008-4 (ISBN)
Description
This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672?1742). For the first time, this publication reproduces in their initial state the embellishments Oppenord drew over the first French edition of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia. In lieu of a haphazard succession of sketches, it reveals Oppenord's fascinating interplay between text, engraved and drawn images, one patterned on the art of conversation and the linguistic games cultivated in elite Parisian circles.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 224 mm
Thickness: 26 mm
Weight
1007 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61149-008-4 (9781611490084)
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Person
Jean-Francois Bedard is assistant professor at Syracuse University.
Content
Chapter 1 1. Introduction Chapter 2 2. Notes on the Facsimile Chapter 3 3. Facsimile of Oppenord's Ornamented Copy of the Ripa-Baudoin Iconologie Chapter 4 4. Facsimile Key Chapter 5 Appendix I: List of Oppenord's Principal Projects and Buildings Chapter 6 Appendix II: Transcription of the "Etat et description de l'Hotel de Cambray" (1749) Chapter 7 Appendix III: Bibliographic Description of Ripa-Baudouin's Iconologie (Paris, 1636)