Leonardo & architecture / Sara Taglialagamba ; foreword, Carlo Pedretti.

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Taglialagamba, Sara.

Title & Author:

Leonardo & architecture / Sara Taglialagamba ; foreword, Carlo Pedretti.

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Description:

151 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-151).
Foreword / Carlo Pedretti -- In Florence 1469-1482 -- In Milan 1482-1499 -- The return to Florence and the journey to Romagna 1500-1505 -- Back in Milan 1506-1513 -- Rome and Florence 1513-1516 -- In France 1517-1519 -- Letter to the Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro -- Religious buildings -- Military architecture : fortifications -- Theatrical architecture -- Leonardo : life & works -- Bibliography.

Summary:

Giorgio Vasari, Leonardo's first biographer, said that the artist used to sketch "many designs for architecture". In fact, in the so-called "letter of employment" written to Ludovico il Moro in 1482, Leonardo presented himself as a military engineer, able to satisfy the demands of the Duke of Milan in peace and in war, declaring that he "can give perfect satisfaction and to the equal of any other in architecture and the composition of buildings public and private". And then he speaks of his ability in hydraulic engineering for conducting water "from one level to another". Leonardo studied in depth several ancient texts but also the treatises of his own time: in particular the treatise of military and civil architecture by the Sienese engineer and architect Francesco di Giorgio Martini, a text that contains projects for fortifications with bastions, able to offer resistance to the artillery fire. This could explain Leonardo's fascination with fortifications, his involvement in the project to realize the tiburio for the Milan cathedral. He made a great many architectural projects for gardens and elegant buildings, testing out innovative solutions, such as the internal stairs. This allows us to better understand his excellent competence in architecture and why he attempted to plan the "ideal city", conceived as being organized on two different levels, one for pedestrians and the other suitable for vehicle transportation. He also projected also religious buildings, studying different solutions for the centralized plan based on complex systems of architectural symmetries.

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ISBN:

9788895686219
8895686217

Subject:

Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 Criticism and interpretation.
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519.
Architecture, Renaissance.
Architecture de la Renaissance.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Leonardo and architecture

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Location: Library main y 274510
Call No.: BIB 208283
Status: Available

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