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