Histories of Ornament: From Global to Local

Gulru Necipoglu is the Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art and director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. She is the author of The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton) and The Topkapi Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic Architecture. Alina Payne is the Alexander P. Misheff Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University and Paul E. Geier Director of Villa I Tatti, The Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies at Villa I Tatti in Florence. She is the author of The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance and From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of Architectural Modernism.

Introduction 1 Gulru Necipoglu and Alina Payne Part I Contemporaneity of Ornament in Architecture Chapter 1 Ornament and Its Users: From the Vitruvian Tradition to the Digital Age 10 Antoine Picon Chapter 2 A Natural History of Ornament 20 Vittoria Di Palma Chapter 3 Inscription: On the Surface of Exchange between Writing, Ornament, and Tectonic in Contemporary Architecture 34 Hashim Sarkis Part II Ornament between Historiography and Theory Chapter 4 Ornament as Weapon: Ballistics, Politics, and Architectural Adornment in Semper's Treatise on Ancient Projectiles 46 Spyros Papapetros Chapter 5 The Passage of the Other: Elements for a Redefinition of Ornament 62 Jonathan Hay Chapter 6 The Invention of Mudejar Art and the Viceregal Aesthetic Paradox: Notes on the Reception of Iberian Ornament in New Spain 70 Maria Judith Feliciano Chapter 7 The Flaw in the Carpet: Disjunctive Continuities and Riegl's Arabesque 82 Finbarr Barry Flood Part III Medieval Mediations Chapter 8 Vesting Walls, Displaying Structure, Crossing Cultures: Transmedial and Transmaterial Dynamics of Ornament 96 Gerhard Wolf Chapter 9 Gothic-Framed Byzantine Icons: Italianate Ornament in the Levant during the Late Middle Ages 106 Michele Bacci Chapter 10 Timurid Architectural Revetment in Central Asia, 1370-1430: The Mimeticism of Mosaic Faience 116 David J. Roxburgh Part IV Early Modern Crosscurrents Chapter 11 Early Modern Floral: The Agency of Ornament in Ottoman and Safavid Visual Cultures 132 Gulru Necipoglu Chapter 12 Ornamental Defacement and Protestant Iconoclasm 156 Christopher P. Heuer Chapter 13 Migration of Techniques: Inlaid Marble Floral Decoration in Baroque Naples 166 Daniela del Pesco Chapter 14 Innovation, Appropriation, and Representation: Mughal Architectural Ornament in the Eighteenth Century 178 Chanchal Dadlani Part V Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction Chapter 15 Ornament, Form, and Vision in Ceramics from Medieval Iran: Reflections of the Human Image 192 Oya Pancaroglu Chapter 16 Variety and Metamorphosis: Form and Meaning in the Ornament of Amico Aspertini 204 Marzia Faietti Chapter 17 Images as Objects: The Problem of Figural Ornament in Eighteenth-Century France 216 David Pullins Chapter 18 Ornament and Vice: The Foreign, the Mobile, and the Cocharelli Fragments 228 Anne Dunlop Chapter 19 Gilded Bodies and Brilliant Walls: Ornament in America before and after the European Conquest 238 Thomas B. F. Cummins Part VI Circulations and Translations of Ornament Chapter 20 The Poetics of Portability 250 Avinoam Shalem Chapter 21 "This Is Babel": Sicily, the Mediterranean Islands, and Southern Italy (1450-1550) 262 Marco Rosario Nobile Chapter 22 Wrapped in Fabric: Florentine Facades, Mediterranean Textiles, and A-TectonicOrnament in the Renaissance 274 Alina Payne Chapter 23 Threads of Ornament in the Style World of the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries 290 Anna Contadini Part VII Internationalism of Ornament and Modernist Abstraction Chapter 24 The Currency of Ornament: Machine-Lathed Anticounterfeiting Patterns and the Portability of Value 308 Jennifer L. Roberts Chapter 25 Grammars of Ornament: Dematerialization and Embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee 320 Remi Labrusse Chapter 26 Sober Ornament: Materiality and Luxury in German Modern Architecture and Design 334 Robin Schuldenfrei Acknowledgments 349 Notes 351 Bibliography 411 Contributors 443 Index 445 Photo Credits 453