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September 10, 2025Open Access

Contextualizing the Cappella Cesi: Sangallo, Façades, and Renaissance Collaboration

Key Points

The Cesi chapel façade is re-evaluated within Renaissance architectural collaboration, emphasizing its context and significance.
Key features of the façade resonate with broader discourses on façade design and ornamentation in early 16th-century Rome.
Observational analysis of architectural designs highlights dialogues among major artists of the Renaissance era.
This reframing helps to understand the interconnectedness of various artistic efforts in Rome during the Renaissance.

Abstract

Abstract This article reframes Antonio da Sangallo the Younger's oft‐overlooked cappella Cesi nave façade in Santa Maria della Pace not as an isolated design deviation but as part of a broader architectural and artistic conversation among major players in early sixteenth‐century Rome. It situates Sangallo's project both within the larger discourses of exterior façade design, ornament, and artistic collaboration in the period. It thus argues for a reappraisal of the Cesi chapel to explore how it participates in the wider language of façade‐making and artistic collaboration in Renaissance Rome.

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