Main entry:

Clifford, Timothy.

Title & Author:

Designs of desire : architectural and ornament prints and drawings, 1500-1850 / Timothy Clifford.

Publication:

Edinburgh : National Galleries of Scotland, ©1999.

Description:

328 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at the Burrell Gallery, Glasgow, Nov. 18, 1999-Jan. 10, 2000 and at the National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, March 31-June 18, 2000.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Gothic and early renaissance designs for stained glass -- Durer and the little master tradition in Germany -- Raphael's pupils and developments in Rome, Mantua, and Genoa -- Serlio and Emilio Romanga -- Fontainebleau and Paris -- Antwerp, the low countries and Germany -- Rome and the council of Trent -- Europe in the melting pot: cross-currents in design -- Louis XIV and Versailles -- Counter reformation in Italy and Spain -- German baroque and princely magnificence -- British baroque -- The regence in eighteenth-century France -- Entertainments : bandstands, firework displays and temporary structures -- Piranesi and his influence in France -- Le Gout Grec in France and Chambers and Wilton in Britain -- Robert Adam : his office, followers and influence -- France 1774-1815 : Style Louis XVI to empire -- The Greek revival -- The gothic revival and antiquarianism -- Scotland in the nineteenth century.

Summary:

Designs of Desire - Architectural and Ornament Prints and Drawings 1500-1850 is a fascinating survey, which introduces a wide selection of drawings and prints not associated with paintings and frescoes, but with architecture, sculpture, and the applied arts. Explored here is not just the world of elevations and plans for churches, palaces, and gardens, but also designs for temporary decorations for triumphal entries, firework displays, coronations, funerals, and many aspects of pageantry and feasting. Here are drawings for metalwork, textiles, books, ceramics, and glass and, above all ornament designs made expressly as sources for the most sophisticated craftsmen working within these disciplines. This helps to remind us that most artists, until comparatively recent times, were not concerned solely with painting but were commissioned by their patrons to produce designs for a very wide variety of their desires. Artists worked within certain recognisable and identifiable bounds that we now call 'fashion'. The greatest artists explored, developed, and sometimes even invented decorative art forms and styles, and the lesser artists mimicked aspects of their work. Ornament, which has been with us as long as art, was the stylistic common language between the artists and the artefact. This book makes apparent that the language of ornament is strangely limited, and generations since classical antiquity - or even before, in much more primitive cultures - have tended to explore variations on themes rather than to create entirely new languages. Their designs were often astonishingly beautiful and witty, especially when the artists were real innovators. In addition to the designs for architecture, sculpture and ornament are those for metalwork, ceramics, stained glass, textiles and even utilitarian objects such as table cloths and egg cups. The source material provided here would have been used by craftsmen like goldsmiths, maiolica painters, and embroiderers, to guide them in creating the artefacts. The scope of this book begins with Albrecht Durer and his generation c.1500, and it ends in the mid-nineteenth century.

ISBN:

0903598000 (paperback)
9780903598002 (paperback)

Subject:

Architecture in art Exhibitions.
Architectural drawing Europe Exhibitions.
Architectural drawing Detailing Exhibitions.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural Europe Exhibitions.
Prints, European Exhibitions.
Architecture dans l'art Expositions.
Dessins de détail Expositions.
Décoration et ornement architecturaux Europe Expositions.
Estampe européenne Expositions.
21.22 history of drawing.
21.32 history of the graphic arts.
Architectural drawing.
Architectural drawing Detailing.
Architecture in art.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural.
Prints, European.
Architectuurprenten.
Ornamentprenten.
Architectuurtekeningen.
Tekeningen.
Ornamentiek.
Europe.
1500-1849

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogues (form)

Added entries:

Burrell Collection.
National Galleries of Scotland.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 211807
Call No.: NE625 .C5 1999
Status: Available