In Roman and Renaissance architecture, a decorative technique in which stone ashlars are finished with rough-textured, projecting outer faces. Rustication has been revived occasionally since the Renaissance, for example in the work of the American architect H. H. Richardson (1838–1886).

Michelozzo di Bartolomeo. Façade of the Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence. Early Renaissance. 1444-1484.