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External architectural facing consisting of ashlars, used in Roman and medieval architecture and spec. In the facades of Renaissance palaces. B. rustic, with freshly roughened ashlars; b. smooth, with ashlars having a polished surface; b. diamond-pointed, with geometrically squared ashlars with the tip pointing outward.Baroque ashlar
External wall face of a building, consisting of protruding worked ashlars, detail ashlars. It can be smooth, if with sharp-edged bosses and a smooth surface; rustic, with roughly hewn ashlars; diamond point, with pyramidal shaped bosses, with a square or rectangular base, sometimes truncated. The bosses can also be cushion-shaped, with rounded corners with a convex surface; disgusting, imitating the hull of a ship; vermiculate, with the surface furrowed by sinuous lines. The b. isodome has ashlars with regular courses and of equal size. It can also be made in stucco in imitation of stone.
Among the most important places of worship in Naples and Southern Italy, the Gesu Nuovo Church owes its beauty to the countless masterpieces that compose it. Just think of the counter-façade of 1725 by Francesco Solimena, with his Expulsion of Heliodorus from the temple, where classical architectural elements surround the center of the action, between colors lights and luminous and plastic movements, or to Luca’s frescoes Giordano in the chapel of Saint Francis Saverio, up to the marble works of Cosimo Fanzago, from Sant’Ambrogio to Sant’Agostino.
