Renaissance Society of America 2009
Los Angeles March 19-21
Faces and Façades : the structure of display in Renaissance Italy
Bounded by the same etymological origin, the human “face” and the palace “façades” are compared by many early modern sources. As the face, the façade conveys symbolic, political and social values, revealing more than any other aspect about its patron. Both had to respect similar laws of decorum and dissimulatio in displaying the social role of a patron to the public (...)