![]() ![]() Vitruvius was an official charged with the rebuilding of Rome under Augustus, to whom his treatise On Architecture is addressed. For a contemporary account of these forms we can turn to the Latin writer Vitruvius. Named after the ‘grottoes’ in which they were found, the new forms consisted of human and animal shapes intermingled with foliage, flowers, and fruits in fantastic designs which bore no relationship to the logical categories of classical art. The word grotesque derives from a type of Roman ornamental design first discovered in the fifteenth century, during the excavation of Titus’s baths. ![]() “Body a tentacle mess”: The Grotesque and The Weird: The Fall ![]()
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