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Metamorphosed Margins
Viktor Kommerell
其他書名
The Case for a Visual Rhetoric of the Renaissance Grottesche Under the Influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses
出版Olms, 2008
ISBN34871369379783487136936
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=24PrAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋The Grottesche, Renaissance ornament, came out of the grotto in the 1480's in Rome - inspired by the Ancient Roman wall paintings discovered in the 'buried' Domus Aurea - just as Ovid's "Metamorphoses" reached a much wider readership in Italy and in Europe. As primary source for all'anticha (hi)stories and meaning, the Metamorphoses fuelled artistic imagination and meaning expressed in Grottesche compositions and motifs for a good part of their 200-year life. The unique ornament entered many art forms, covering Europe; and was revived in the 1700's and 1900's. This book makes an argument about what the Grottesche had meant to their 15th and 16th century contemporaries by looking at 7 locations, still visitable today. Hamburg-based researcher Victor Kommerell has written an engaging account of his findings, which invites art and cultural historians, Italy lovers and 'educational tourists' to delve into the often neglected margins.