Interpreting Art Nouveau in drawings by Gino Coppedé
Gino Coppedé was an eclectic Florentine architect who actively contributed to Italian architecture during the first two decades of the twentieth century. During his professional career, his formal style—above all his drawings—was very similar to what in Italy was known as “stil-nuovo”, “stile foreale”, or Liberty, in other words the Italian version of Art Nouveau. This contribution reviewed the many works he executed in Rome during the last period of his career. Our critical analysis concentrated on the representation methods and communicative-graphic mediums used by the architect.