The Palazzo Vecchio grotesques : a guidebook /
Saved in:
Author / Creator: | Cecchi, Alessandro, author. |
---|---|
Imprint: | Rome : Officina Libraria, [2024] |
Description: | 93 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13508411 |
Other uniform titles: | Zucchi, Valentina, Cecchi, Alessandro. Painters of groteques in the Palazzo Vecchio. Zucchi, Valentina. Power of grotesques. |
---|---|
ISBN: | 9788833672144 883367214X |
Notes: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Summary: | "Palazzo Vecchio, which towers over piazza della Signoria, at the center of Florence, is an iconic building and from the Middle Ages to the Medici family to present day it has been the seat of civic power. Among its most admired features are the marvelous grotesque decorations which animate the walls and vaults of the courtyard and several rooms. Grotesques are a type of wall decoration, in stucco or fresco, often with the addition of gold, that developed in the Renaissance when the vaults of the Domus Aurea in Rome, which were underground (considered grottos hence the name), were rediscovered by artists who drew inspiration from those designs. Palazzo Vecchio's grotesques are lively, extravagant ornaments, generated by the creativity of artists - among whom Ridolfo del Ghirlandaio (1483-1561) and Marco Marchetti da Faenza (ca. 1526-1588) stand out - and they include, birds, flowers, vegetation and many strange creatures that have a mixture of human and animal traits" -- |
Similar Items
-
Lo Stanzino del Principe in Palazzo Vecchio : i concetti, le immagini, il desiderio : Firenze, Palazzo Vecchio 1570-Forte di Belvedere 1980 : una messa in scena in tre tempi con un prologo, due intermezzi e un epilogo /
by: Dezzi Bardeschi, Marco
Published: (1980) -
Le stanze del principe in Palazzo vecchio /
by: Muccini, Ugo
Published: (1991) -
Palazzo Vecchio, Firenze /
by: Cecchi, Alessandro
Published: (1995) -
Scoperta di Palazzo Vecchio.
by: Bargellini, Piero, 1897-1980
Published: (1968) -
Palazzo Vecchio /
by: Muccini, Ugo
Published: (1989)