Esplorazione visuale del dibattito intorno al secondo fianco

• Martino Pavignano ^[1]
  1. [1] Polytechnic University of Turin

     Polytechnic University of Turin

     Torino, Italia

     
• 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. 1339-1346
• Idioma: italiano
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  • Between the end of the sixteenth and mid-eighteenth centuries, the ‘second flank’ has been an interestingtopic within the cultural debate around military architecture, since its implementation in the curtainramparts system would have allowed a greater volume of fire along the faces of the bastions. Thecontribution proposes an analysis of the graphic apparatuses of some treatises, investigating the methodsused to represent, analyse, and discuss the theme of the second flank. Among all its estimators, thereis also Giuseppe Ignazio Bertola. In his Dizionario e repertorio… he noted the ideas of some of theprevious authors. Starting from Bertola’s Dizionario, available in the critical edition by Amelio Fara,the paper proposes the analysis of the sources cited, expanding the search to other treatises. Through acritical interpretation of the relationships between textual descriptions and various representations, a firstvisual exploration of the debate around the second flank is carried out, opening to the comparison with thevisual culture of the time. Different relationships emerge between texts and images, used by each author tostrengthen the communication of his idea. In this sense, images become graphic proof of the goodness ofthe system, or illustrations in support of a broader discussion. The paper focus also on the ambiguity of theterm, as used over the centuries XVI and XIX, also from the graphic point of view.