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Casa Graffita

Vicolo del Campanile, 18, Rome, Italy

 

The house known as the Casa Graffita (or more popularly as the House of the Executioner) is located at number 18, Vicolo del Campanile, one of the cross-streets of Borgo Sant'Angelo. The custom of decorating the exterior of houses in Rome became popular at the start of the Renaissance but probably originated in Venice. Some say it was Virgilio Romano who painted this place, but other hypotheses have also been made. Some experts even consider it to have been the work of the school of Raphael who may have also designed the house. It was decorated around 1520 and the last restoration took place in 1980. Note the false ashlars on the ground floor, the scenes of prisoners on the first floor, the female figures on floors two and three, and the lions' heads on the top floor.

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