The Frescoed Facade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-94-6372-628-3
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 63, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 176 mm x 247 mm, Gewicht: 596 g

Reihe: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Culotta, Alexis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: Renaissance, Manierismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Culotta, Alexis
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.