Main entry:

Bédard, Jean-François.

Title & Author:

Decorative games : ornament, rhetoric, and noble culture in the work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742) / Jean-François Bédard.

Publication:

Newark [Del.] : University of Delaware Press, 2011.

Description:

286 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Series:

Studies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century art and culture

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.
Machine generated contents note: Introduction -- Notes on the Facsimile -- Facsimile of Oppenord's Ornamented Copy of the Ripa-Baudoin Iconologie -- Facsimile Key.

Summary:

"This book features an extraordinary album of ornament designs by the French architect Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742). In charge of the buildings and grounds of Philippe, duke of Orléans, regent of France during the minority of Louis XV, Oppenord was at the center of the architectural practice of his time. As made evident by this album, his consummate draftsmanship, praised by his contemporaries and coveted by collectors, exceeded by far the practical demands usually required of architects. On a copy of the first French edition of Cesare Ripa's Iconologia, published by Jean Baudoin in 1636 with engravings by Jacques de Bié, Oppenord drew vignettes, head and tail pieces, borders and other ornamental motifs. For the first time, this publication reproduces Oppenord's album in its initial state. Today's reassembled and rebound album of sixty sheets bears little resemblance to Oppenord's original copy. A bibliographic analysis of the Ripa-Baudoin book, based on a copy kept at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and confirmed by a previously unnoticed numbering by Oppenord, guided this first reconstitution. In lieu of a haphazard succession of sketches, it reveals Oppenord's fascinating interplay between text, engraved and drawn images."--Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

9780874130973 (alk. paper)
0874130972 (alk. paper)
9781611490084
1611490081

Subject:

Oppenord, Gilles-Marie, 1672-1742 Criticism and interpretation.
Ripa, Cesare, 1560-1645. Iconologia.
Oppenord, Gilles-Marie, 1672-1742.
Iconologia (Ripa, Cesare)
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.
Décoration intérieure France Histoire 18e siècle.
Décoration intérieure Aspect social France.
Art and society.
Decoration and ornament, Rococo.
Intellectual life.
Interior decoration.
Interior decoration Social aspects.
France Intellectual life 18th century.
France Vie intellectuelle 18e siècle.
France.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Oppenord, Gilles-Marie, 1672-1742.
University of Delaware Press studies in 17th- and 18th- century art and culture.

Ornament, rhetoric, and noble culture in the work of Gilles-Marie Oppenord (1672-1742)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 272564
Call No.: BIB 205951
Status: Available