Variety, archeology, & ornament
Subtitle: renaissance architectural prints from column to cornice
Publisher: University of Virginia Art Museum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
ISBN-13: 9780983505907
Subjects: Renaissance Prints; Exhibitions; Architectural Decoration and ornament; Renaissance Decoration and ornament; Renaissance Architecture; Illustrated books; History
Other titles: Variety, archeology, and ornament
Description: "The works that form the core of the exhibition, a set of twenty-three architectural prints by the so-called 'Master G.A. with the Caltrop', disrupt the typical narrative of Renaissance architecture in both their medium and content. As single-leaf prints of architectural details, they demonstrate the existence of an architectural print culture beyond treatise illustrations or views of Rome (vedute)....As representations of highly ornamental capitals, bases, and cornices, they indicate a lively interest in non-canonical, non-Vitruvian details that survived well into the sixteenth century."--Introduction, p. 7.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition.