Aventine hill
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| - | When a young Roman inadvertently fell through a cleft in the [[Aventine hill]]side at the end of the 15th century, he found himself in a strange cave or [[grotta]] filled with painted figures. Soon the young artists of Rome were having themselves let down on boards knotted to ropes to see for themselves. The [[fresco]]es that were uncovered then have faded to pale gray stains on the plaster now, but the effect of these freshly-rediscovered [[grottesche]] decorations was [[electrifying]] in the early Renaissance, which was just arriving in Rome. When [[Pinturicchio]], [[Raphael]] and [[Michelangelo]] crawled [[underground]] and were let down shafts to study them, carving their names on the walls to let the world know they had been there, the paintings were a revelation of the true world of antiquity. Beside the graffiti signatures of later tourists, like [[Casanova]] and the [[Marquis de Sade]] scratched into a fresco inches apart, are the autographs of [[Domenico Ghirlandaio]], [[Martin van Heemskerck]], and [[Filippino Lippi]]. | + | |
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