Frescoed Facade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture (eBook)

Alexis Culotta (Autor)

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2025
Taylor & Francis (Verlag)
9781040782569 (ISBN)

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This book examines Roman facades decorated with fresco and sgraffito between the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries that once enveloped the central rioni of Rome within a web of symbolic social, political, and familial allegiances that transformed a street-side stroll into a visually engaging experience. Today, many of these faces are lost, and our understanding of what they comprised is frighteningly incomplete. This book offers a refreshed look at this often-forgotten facet of Renaissance visual culture to reignite interest in the tradition before its last remnants disappear. In addition to offering a new compilation of these documented facades, this book also places new emphasis on the making and meaning of these "e;painted faces"e; to provide new insights into the place of the decorated facade at the intersections of patron identity and painterly innovation in a city working tirelessly to reinvent itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• ISBN-13: 9781040782569 / 9781040782569