Format:
286 S
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Ill
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29 cm
ISBN:
9781611490084
Series Statement:
Studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture
Content:
"This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). In charge of the buildings and grounds of Philippe, duke of Orléans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV, Oppenord was at the center of the architectural practice of his time. As made evident by this album, his consummate draftsmanship, praised by his contemporaries and coveted by collectors, exceeded by far the practical demands usually required of architects. On a copy of the first French edition of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, published by Jean Baudoin in 1636 with engravings by Jacques de Bié, Oppenord drew vignettes, head and tail pieces, borders and other ornamental motifs. For the first time, this publication reproduces Oppenord's album in its initial state. Today's reassembled and rebound album of sixty sheets bears little resemblance to Oppenord's original copy. A bibliographic analysis of the Ripa-Baudoin book, based on a copy kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and confirmed by a previously unnoticed numbering by Oppenord, guided this first reconstitution. In lieu of a haphazard succession of sketches, it reveals Oppenord's fascinating interplay between text, engraved and drawn images."--P. [4] of cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral--Columbia University, 2003) under the title: The architect as honnête homme: the domestic architecture and decoration of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)
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Teilw. zugl.: New York, Univ., Diss., 2003 u.d.T.: The architect as honnête homme
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Bédard, Jean-François Decorative games Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press, 2011 ISBN 9781611490084
Language:
English
Keywords:
Oppenord, Gilles-Marie 1672-1742
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Illustration
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Ripa, Cesare 1560-1645 Iconologia
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Bildband
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Hochschulschrift
Author information:
Oppenord, Gilles-Marie 1672-1742
