Giacomo De Lanteri. Il ruolo del disegno nell’architettura delladifesa tardo-cinquecentesca

• Ornella Zerlenga ^[1] ; Vincenzo Cirillo ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Campania Luigi Vanvitelli – Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Aversa, Italy
• Localización: FORTMED2023. Defensive architecture of the mediterranean : vol. XIII, XIV, XV / Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua (dir. congr.), Denise Ulivieri (aut.), 2023, ISBN 978-84-1396-129-3, págs. 329-336
• Idioma: italiano
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  • This paper has as object of study the dissemination through Treaties of a new way to conceive the role of drawing in the conception and graphical representation of design of new defensive forms such as bastions systems of the sixteenth century. In a historical period characterized by deep theoretical and social transformations (which affect the formulation of the defense design) the drawing intervenes with an important role for knowledge and configuration processes of defense architecture. In this panorama, is investigated the theoretical and practical implications contained in the late-sixteenth-century Treatise production by Giacomo De Lanteri. He is author of two volumes that introduce the nascent ‘Arte del Fortificare’ (Art of Fortifying) which anticipate a fervent print activity of specialized works such as by Iacopo Castriotto and Girolamo Maggi (1564), Giovanni Scala (1596), Buonaiuto Lorini (1597). The Lanteri’s work introduces a new cultural vision where the bastion defense design is based on the integration of science and technology as well as on the functionality verification before the construction of fortified structure in situ. In this context, Lanteri anticipates and formulates a design method based on the knowledge of both the principles of Euclidean geometry and the practice of drawing to configure a ‘perfect bastion shape’ and check its efficiency in relation to artillery fire before its realization.