Project Tag: Grotesque

  • Ornament and Metamorphosis

    Ornament and Metamorphosis

    The Grotesque and its Rediscovery In the 1480s a young man fell into a hole close to the Coliseum in Rome and found himself amongst the most beautiful and bizarre wall paintings he had ever seen – or so the legend goes. Other sources claim it was the painter Pinturicchio who fell into the hole.…