Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History

Armstrong, Christopher Drew

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“…15 This intertwining of antiquarianism and geodesy -the empirical measurement of the earth's size and shape -reached its apex in the eighteenth century, when archaeological missions to Greece sought to discover ancient foot measurements so that Eratosthenes's calculation could be compared with results obtained from the latest polar and equatorial expeditions. 16 Sangallo, for his part, was musing fancifully about large-scale surveying and was seemingly trying his hand at a Greco-Roman enigma that had acquired a new relevance in the age of exploration.…”

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Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and St Peter’s Keys: Building Technology and Vitruvian Theory

Holzman,

Yerkes

2023

Archit. hist.

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This article reconstructs an exceptional lifting device — a cruciform lewis — drawn by Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484–1546) at St Peter’s Basilica in Rome and connects it to the other drawings, mainly of Vitruvian theory, on the same sheet (now in the Uffizi in Florence). Elements of this sheet, dated to January 1542, have been studied in isolation, but this article connects them, underscoring how Sangallo’s theoretical interests in the art of building and the practicalities of masonry construction were inseparable. A question posed by the sheet is whether it documents Sangallo’s archaeological discoveries of ancient Roman tools or presents newly contrived ones — categories that Sangallo’s drawings move fluidly between. His studies should be understood in relation to the immediate problems that he faced on the building site of St Peter’s and within the broader context of other Renaissance drawings of machines, such as those by Francesco di Giorgio and Leonardo da Vinci.

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Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and St Peter’s Keys: Building Technology and Vitruvian Theory

Holzman,

Yerkes

2023

Archit. hist.

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“…Since in the theory of sentiment the beholder was subject to the contingent and transitory nature of mental states and emotions, architecture played out as a series of spatial images and focal points through which the public could move. 6 As Christopher Drew Armstrong and Peter de Bolla have argued, this sense of a physically mobile beholder was entirely new to 18th-century conceptions of aesthetic experience (Armstrong 2012;de Bolla 2003).…”

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The Distracted Believer and the Return to the First Basilica: Marqués de Ureña’s Reflexiones sobre la Arquitectura, Ornato, y Música del Templo of 1785

Macsotay

2018

Architectural Histories

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A key text on Spanish architectural reform, Marqués de Ureña's Reflexiones sobre la arquitectura, ornato, y música del templo of 1785, contains a rich and layered discussion of the doctrinal and aesthetic foundations of ecclesiastical architecture. Ureña's Reflexiones appears at a moment of transition for Spanish architectural history by calling for a return to the ancient basilica type. The paper reconstructs a discussion waged by Ureña and his contemporaries on problems within the contemporary Spanish church interior: its use of wooden ornament, ephemerals, transformable altars and other Spanish late-baroque ecclesiastical décor. Thus, the return to origins in Christian architecture might be framed in terms of a wider debate on usage, and the sense in which the basilica offered a corrective for the relationship between the religious building and religious practitioners. The integration of doctrine and aesthetic reason in this defence of the original basilica furthermore demonstrates Ureña's wish to modernize devices that had traditionally undergirded religious practice and featured materially in the education of the faithful. Finally, the paper argues for the importance, given Ureña's introduction of a framework that allowed for an aesthetic way of reasoning, of considering affective responses to architecture in the Iberian and Hispanic context.

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“…Las tablas comparativas de Le Roy "refl ejan una hipótesis de la hibridación que desafía la teoría mimética en la base misma del clasicismo, defi niendo el progreso como la capacidad de combinar formas" 17 -la planta octogonal de la ruina entendida como un evento aislado, el fugaz paso de una construcción rectangular a otra circular. ¿Es entonces la torre de Atenas un híbrido estéril producto de un cruce entre dos tipologías de templos?…”

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Nachleben: La pervivencia de la Torre de los Vientos

Ernstorfer

2020

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Julien-David Leroy and the Making of Architectural History

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Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and St Peter’s Keys: Building Technology and Vitruvian Theory

Antonio da Sangallo the Younger and St Peter’s Keys: Building Technology and Vitruvian Theory

The Distracted Believer and the Return to the First Basilica: Marqués de Ureña’s Reflexiones sobre la Arquitectura, Ornato, y Música del Templo of 1785

Nachleben: La pervivencia de la Torre de los Vientos

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