Decorative games
Subtitle: ornament, rhetoric, and noble culture in the work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)
By: Jean-François Bédard.
Contributors: Oppenord, Gilles-Marie, 1672-1742.
Series: Studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Newark [Del.]
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780874130973
Subjects: Oppenord, Gilles-Marie, -- 1672-1742 -- Criticism and interpretation; Ripa, Cesare, -- fl. 1600; Decoration and ornament, Rococo -- France; Decoration and ornament -- Social aspects -- France; Interior decoration -- France -- History -- 18th century; Interior decoration -- Social aspects -- France; Art and society -- France -- History -- 18th century; France -- Intellectual life -- 18th century
Other titles: Ornament, rhetoric, and noble culture in the work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)
Notes: 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).

Includes bibliographical references and index.