Grotesques: Sixteenth-Century Frescoes in Rome, Florence, and Northern Italy Publisher / Perimeter Editions love and die

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Grotesques: Sixteenth-Century Frescoes in Rome, Florence, and Northern Italy Publisher / Perimeter Editions love and dieWhen the term, Grotesques, first arose around the year 1500 in Italy, it referred specifically to ornamental frescoes featuring exceptionally inventive, noteworthy, humorous, or monstrous motifs. These paintings became a preferred decoration in the period's exquisite villas, palaces, and churches of Rome, Florence and Northern Italy. Lavishly illustrated, this book is an art historical introduction and guide to grotesques and decorative frescoes of