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Decorative Games: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Noble Culture in the Work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)
Author(s): Jean-François Bédard (Author)
- Publisher: University of Delaware Press
- Publication Date: 11 Mar. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 288 pages
- ISBN-10: 1611490081
- ISBN-13: 9781611490084
Book Description
This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (16721742). 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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About the Author
Jean-François Bédard is assistant professor at Syracuse University.
