Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. List of Illustrations 7
4. Introduction 13
5. Part I. Grotesques
6. 1. Ambiguous Delights: Ornamental Grotesques and Female Monstrosity in Sixteenth-Century Italy 45
7. 2. Dissonant Symphonies: The Villa d’Este in Tivoli and the Grotesque 73
8. Part II. Sacred Space and Narrative
9. 3. Outside-In: The Intrusion of Ornament into Sacred Narrative 95
10. 4. ‘That savage should mate with tame’: Hybridity, Indeterminacy, and the Grotesque in the Murals of San Miguel Arcángel (Ixmiquilpan, Mexico) 133
11. 5. Decoration in the Desert: Unsettling the Order of Architecture in the Certosa di San Martino 153
12. Part III. Agency and Ornament Enlivened
13. 6. Masquing/(Un)Masking: Animation and the Restless Ornament of Fontainebleau 177
14. 7. Sea-Change: The Whale in the Florentine Loggia 203
15. 8. Ornament and Agency: Vico’s Poetic Monsters 221
16. Part IV. A Historical Perspective
17. 9. Trafficking the Body: Prolegomena to a Posthumanist Theory of Ornament and Monstrosity 245
18. Index 277