Cazuffi House – Rella
Casa Cazuffi - Rella
Together with the adjacent building, the ancient house of the noble Cazuffi overlooking Piazza del Duomo and bordering the church of the Annunciation constitutes the most important domus picta of Renaissance Trent built to best accommodate the guests of the Council of Trent.
It is a simple building originally with two floors (then raised), set on a porch with lowered arches. The two houses, set on a polygonal layout and supported by the massive pillars of the portico, display a complex 16th-century pictorial cycle on several floors. On the left façade, characters and scenes from classical mythology are depicted: at the top, Geryon and the allegories of Fortune, Chance and Nemesis; at the bottom, Damocles at the table of the tyrant Dionysius. The right side illustrates the subjects of Virtue, Time, the Triumphs of Love, Apollo and Abundance. The works ideally reach their climax in the Scale of Virtues and are explained by the scrolls in Latin, and can be considered a "book on morals" opened out to the square and inspired by the emblematic culture of the Renaissance.
