The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture

Alexis Culotta (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

258 Seiten

2025
Amsterdam University Press (Verlag)
978-94-6372-628-3 (ISBN)

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This book examines Roman façades 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 façades, this book also places new emphasis on the making and meaning of these “painted faces” to provide new insights into the place of the decorated façade at the intersections of patron identity and painterly innovation in a city working tirelessly to reinvent itself.

Alexis Culotta specializes in sixteenth-century Roman art and architecture with a particular focus on the working relationships between the creative protagonists of the era. This fueled her first book (Tracing the Visual Language of Raphael’s Circle to 1527; Brill 2020), which framed the foundation for this second project.

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter One: Foundations: First Style (Structural)
Chapter Two: Theoretical Implications: Second Style (Framed)
Chapter Three: Increasing Innovation: Third Style (Illusory)
Chapter Four: Total Translation: Fourth Style (Theatrical)
Chapter Five: Contextual Conversations
Conclusion: Beyond Renaissance Rome
APPENDIX: Façade Inventory
List of Illustrations
List of Works Cited

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.2.2025
Reihe/Serie	Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
Zusatzinfo	17 Illustrations, color; 25 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Amsterdam
Sprache	englisch
Maße	17 x 24 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Malerei / Plastik
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	94-6372-628-4 / 9463726284
ISBN-13	978-94-6372-628-3 / 9789463726283
Zustand	Neuware