NECIPO Ğ LU A N D

Gülru Necipoğlu is the Aga Khan Professor of P AY HISTORIES OF ORNAMENT Islamic Art and director of the Aga Khan Program N From Global to Local for Islamic Architecture at Harvard University. E She is the author of The Age of Sinan: Architectural Edited by Gülru Necipoğlu Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton) and The and Alina Payne Topkapı Scroll: Geometry and Ornament in Islamic

Architecture. Alina Payne is the Alexander P. HISTORIES OF Mishef Professor of History of Art and Architec- ture at Harvard University and director of The This lavishly illustrated volume is the frst major Harvard Center for Italian Renaissance Studies global history of ornament from the Middle Ages at Villa I Tatti in Florence. She is the author of to today. Crossing historical and geographical The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance boundaries in unprecedented ways and consid- and From Ornament to Object: Genealogies of ering the role of ornament in both art and Architectural Modernism. architecture, Histories of Ornament ofers a nuanced examination that integrates medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and modern Euroameri- HISTORIES OF can traditions with their Islamic, Indian, Chinese, and Mesoamerican counterparts. At a time when ornament has re-emerged in architectural practice and is a topic of growing interest to art and architectural historians, the book reveals O how the long history of ornament illuminates its

RNAMENT ORNAMENT global resurgence today.

FROM GLOBAL TO LOCAL Organized by thematic sections on the signif- Published by Princeton University Press, cance, infuence, and modalities of ornament, Princeton and Oxford the book addresses ornament’s current revival in

242 color and 29 black-and-white illustrations architecture, its historiography and theories, its transcontinental mobility in medieval to early Jacket illustrations: (front) Top left: Cosimo Fanzago, modern Eurasian and Mesoamerican geogra- decoration of door frame in the cloister of the Certosa di phies, and its place in the context of industrializa- San Martino. Naples. Top right: Binding, Fakhr al-Din tion and modernism. Throughout, Histories of al-’Iraqi, Al-Lamā Œāt (Istanbul, 881/1477). Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts (MS. 2031, formerly MS. 1501), Ornament emphasizes the portability, agency, Istanbul. Bottom: Herzog & de Meuron, Eberswalde and politics of ornament; fguration versus Technical School Library, 1994–99. Eberswalde, Germany. abstraction; cross-cultural dialogues; and the (back) Top left: Cristofano Gherardi, Palazzo Vittelli alla constant negotiation of local and global traditions. Cannoniera, 1534. Castello, Italy. Top right: Herzog & de Meuron, de Young Museum, 2005. San Francisco. Middle: Herzog & de Meuron, Pfafenholz Sports Centre, 1989–93. Featuring original essays by more than two Saint-Louis, France. Bottom left: Detail from an illuminated dozen international scholars, this authoritative page with margins decorated by a split palmette scroll, and wide-ranging book provides an indispens- signed by Hasan, Amir Ghayb Beg Album, Safavid Iran, able reference on the histories of ornament in before 1566. Topkapı Palace Museum Library (H. 2161, press.princeton.edu EDITED BY GÜLRU NECIPOĞLU AND ALINA PAYNE a global context. fol. 93a), Istanbul. Bottom and bottom right: Detail of a ninth-century stucco dado from Samarra showing ISBN: 978-0-691-16728-2 Style C–type ornament.

Jacket design by Jo Ellen Ackerman / Bessas & Ackerman printed in china