The Italian Renaissance Palace Fa Ade

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.