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# №075 — Dismesso (street art)
- URL: https://www.readingrome.com/075-dismesso-street-art/
- Published: 2026-11-11T09:52:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-11T09:52:00.000Z
- Author: Maria Chugrova

SSomeone in Rome has swapped the Playboy bunny for a muscular statue holding up a column capital, and stamped it DISMESSO: retired, out of service. I read it as satire on the decline of traditional masculine ideals. Rome had the original playboys, rich men who ignored the mos maiorum, the custom of the ancestors, to party and cause scandal. In 62 BC Clodius sneaked into a women-only rite dressed as a woman. RR