1st Edition
The Frescoed Façade in Renaissance Roman Visual Culture
By Alexis Culotta
Copyright 2025
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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.
Biography
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.
