When the term, Grotesques, first arose around the year 1500 in Italy, it referred specifically to ornamental frescoes featuring exceptionally inventive, noteworthy, humorous, or monstrous motifs. These paintings became a preferred decoration in the period's exquisite villas, palaces, and churches of Rome, Florence and Northern Italy.
Lavishly illustrated, this book is an art historical introduction and guide to grotesques and decorative frescoes of the sixteenth-century, and offers a new perspective on the visual culture of an era in which art was rooted in ancient and medieval worldviews yet also on a trajectory toward Modernity.
Distributed for Aarhus University Press
| ISBN: | 9788775975563 |
| Publication date: | 23rd September 2025 |
| Author: | Maria Fabricius Hansen |
| Publisher: | Aarhus University Press an imprint of Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Genres: |
Conservation, restoration and care of artworks History of art Paintings and painting Carvings, masks, reliefs |
When the term, Grotesques, first arose around the year 1500 in Italy, it referred specifically to ornamental frescoes featuring exceptionally inventive, noteworthy, humorous, or monstrous motifs. These paintings became a preferred decoration in the period's exquisite villas, palaces, and churches of Rome, Florence and Northern Italy.
Grotesques features in the following genres: Conservation, restoration and care of artworks, History of art, Paintings and painting, Carvings, masks, reliefs
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Grotesques was written by Maria Fabricius Hansen and published by Aarhus University Press an imprint of Yale University Press
Grotesques has 248 pages
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