Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) (Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Art and Culture) - Hardcover

B�dard, Jean-Fran�ois

9781611490084: Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) (Studies in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth- Century Art and Culture)

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Publisher: University of Delaware Press, 2010

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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Jean-Francois Bedard is assistant professor at Syracuse University.

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PublisherUniversity of Delaware Press
Publication date2010
ISBN 10 1611490081
ISBN 13 9781611490084
BindingHardcover
Number of pages288

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