Francesco di Giorgio Martini's Fortress Complexes
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
3936681422
ISBN-13
9783936681420
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges
Imprint
Edition Axel Menges
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Sep 14th, 2011
Print length
128 Pages
Weight
874 grams
Dimensions
28.90 x 21.70 x 1.80 cms
Product Classification:
History of art & design styles: c 1400 to c 1600Individual architects & architectural firms
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Francesco di Giorgio Martini's fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millennium later by their semiotic character. This book is an attempt to understand the strangely grandiose semiotic character of these structures.
Francesco di Giorgio Martini''s fortress complexes, created at the end of the Quattrocento, continue to look experimental and highly speculative half a millenium later by their semiotic character. They represent an extreme of European architectural history, occupying a position where architecture and sculpture cannot be sharply distinguished any longer. The alien-looking creations represented in this book have their origins in a particular historic situation: the emergence of firearms in the 14th century and their spread in the 15th century had shifted the balance of warfare in favour of the attacking side, against which the defensive structure had not yet found a remedy.
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