Ornamento senza delitto
Recensione di Ariane Varela Braga (a cura di),
Ornamento, tra arte e design. Interpretazioni, percorsie mutazioni nell’Ottocento. Atti della giornata internazionale del 23 aprile 2009 all’Istituto Svizzero di Roma. Schwabe, Basel, 2013
Maria Stella Bottai
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In the last few years, the study of ornament has been the object of a reevaluation in art history, architecture and in the contemporary arts. In 2009, the Swiss Institute in Rome organized a study day on this topic, fo- cusing on the theories developed in the nineteenth century, when ornament was gradually liberated from the traditional rhetoric of decorum. The book here reviewed gathers the proceedings of that symposium.