The Italian Renaissance Palace Faade: Structures of Authority, Surfaces of Sense (Res Monographs in Anthropology and Aesthetics)

ISBN: 052162438X

Author: Burroughs, Charles

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The architectural facade -- a crucial and ubiquitous element of traditional cityscapes -- addresses and enhances the space of the city, while displaying or dissembling interior arrangements. Burroughs traces the development of the Italian Renaissance palace facade as a cultural, architectural and spatial phenomenon, and as a new way of setting a limit to and defining a private sphere. He draws on literary evidence and analyses of significant Renaissance buildings, noting the paucity of explicit discussion of the theme in an era of extensive architectural publishing.