Brill's Studies in Intellectual History 245; Brill's studies on art, art history and intellectual history 10

Introduction -- Part 1. Ancient prolegomena. Kosmos -- Rhetoric and illusion -- Cosmic decor -- Part 2. Fragment and design. Architectur and the city -- Garland and mosaic in literary humanism -- Topics and style -- Ornament and disegno, colour and prespective -- The city recovered, triumph and time -- The emblematic continuum -- Spolia and ornamental design -- The grottesche, Part 1. Fragment to field -- The grottesche, Part 2. Signs, topography and the dream of painting.