Art and Identity - Monochrome faux antique façade painting from a cross-European perspective (1530-1630)

这个项目调查了早期现代人如何通过彩绘建筑重塑他们的城市环境，这是这一时期社会和文化历史中一个未被充分探索的方面。它提出了为什么意大利中部以外的三个地区的艺术家和赞助人选择了一种与1530年至1630年之间的古罗马遗产有关的绘画立面风格。采用跨文化比较的方法，它提出，立面绘画和政治背景之间的联系被夸大了。相反，它认为这种发展是由北方意大利、瑞士和南部德国对古典历史的共同兴趣所推动的。

This project investigates how early modern people reshaped their urban environments through painted architecture, an underexplored aspect of the social and cultural history of this period. It asks why artists and patrons in three regions outside central Italy chose a style of painted façade associated with the legacy of ancient Rome between 1530-1630. Adopting a comparative cross-cultural approach, it proposes that the link between façade painting and political context has been exaggerated. It argues instead that this development was motivated by a shared interest in the classical past across northern Italy, Switzerland and southern Germany.