Histories of ornament: from global to local

Contemporaneity of Ornament in Architecture

Ornament between Historiography and Theory

Medieval Mediations

Early Modern Crosscurrents

Ornament between Figuration and Abstraction

Circulations and Translations of Ornament

Internationalism of Ornament and Modernist Abstraction.

Introduction / Gülru Necipoğlu and Alina Payne

Part I. Contemporaneity of ornament in architecture. Ornament and its users: From the Vitruvian tradition to the digital age / Antoine Picon

A natural history of ornament / Vittoria Di Palma

Inscription: On the surface of exchange between writing, ornament, and tectonic in contemporary architecture / Hashim Sarkis

Part II. Ornament between historiography and theory. Ornament as weapon: Ballistics, politics, and architectural adornment in Semper's treatise on ancient projectiles / Spyros Papapetros

The passage of the other: Elements for a redefinition of ornament / Jonathan Hay

The invention of Mudejar art and the Viceregal aesthetic paradox: Notes on the reception of Iberian ornament in New Spain / María Judith Feliciano

The flaw in the carpet: Disjunctive continuities and Riegl's arabesque / Finbarr Barry Flood

Part III. Medieval mediations. Vesting walls, displaying structure, crossing cultures: Transmedial and transmaterial dynamics of ornament / Gerhard Wolf

Gothic-framed Byzantine icons: Italianate ornament in the Levant during the late middle ages / Michele Bacci

Timurid architectural revetment in Central Asia, 1370-1430: The mimeticism of mosaic faience / David J. Roxburgh

Part IV. Early modern crosscurrents. Early modern floral: The agency of ornament in Ottoman and Safavid visual cultures / Gülru Necipoğlu

Ornamental defacement and Protestant iconoclasm / Christopher P. Heuer

Migration of techniques: Inlaid marble floral decoration in Baroque Naples / Daniela del Pesco

Innovation, appropriation, and representation: Mughal architectural ornament in the eighteenth century / Chanchal Dadlani

Part V. Ornament between figuration and abstraction. Ornament, form, and vision in ceramics from medieval Iran: Reflections of the human image / Oya Pancaroğlu

variety and metamorphosis: Form and meaning in the ornament of Amico Aspertini / Marzia Faietti

Images as objects: The problem of figural ornament in eighteenth-century France / David Pullins

Ornament and vice: The foreign, the mobile, and the Cocharelli fragments / Anne Dunlop

Gilded bodies and brilliant walls: Ornament in America before and after the European conquest / Thomas B. F. Cummins

Part VI. Circulations and translations of ornament. The poetics of portability / Avinoam Shalem

"This is Babel": Sicily, the Mediterranean Islands, and Southern Italy (1450-1550)

Marco Rosario Nobile

Wrapped in fabric: Florentine façades, Mediterranean textiles, and a-tectonic ornament in the Renaissance / Alina Payne

Threads of ornament in the style world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries / Anna Contadini

Part VII. Internationalism of ornament and modernist abstraction. The currency of ornament: Machine-lathed anticounterfeiting patterns and the portability of value / Jennifer L. Roberts

Grammars of ornament: Dematerialization and embodiment from Owen Jones to Paul Klee / Rémi Labrusse

Sober ornament: Materiality and luxury in German modern architecture and design / Robin Schuldenfrei.