A classical stage for the old nobility: the Strada Nuova and sixteenth-century Genoa

• Autores: George Lawrence Gorse
• Localización: Art bulletin, ISSN 0004-3079, Vol. 79, Nº 2, 1997, págs. 301-327
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study redefines the Strada Nuova as an urban enclave or linear piazza, serving a select group of old noble families at the very moment when their power was being challenged by the new nobility in the Genoese republic of 1528. Reconsideration of this major Renaissance axial street within its local Genoese context highlights the many links it had to medieval family neighborhood (albergo) organization. Palace siting and facade styles related these families along the ceremonial corridor, which was used to create a new Roman classical image of the city during the second half of the sixteenth century.