Leonardo s Representational Technique for Centrally-Planned Temples

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2008

Authors

João Pedro Xavier (Author) FAUP

Journal

Title: Nexus Network Journal

Vol. 10 No. 1

Pages: 77-99

ISSN: 1590-5896

Publisher: KIM WILLIAMS BOOKS

Indexing

ISI Web of Science

Scientific classification

FOS: Humanities > Arts

CORDIS: Technological sciences > Architecture

Other information

Abstract (EN): The aim of this paper is to verify how Leonardo’s invention of a new representational technique for centrally planned temples – combining as a system, the building plan and a bird’s eye perspective – is related to his own architectonic research on centralized space. In general it is proved the mutual dependence of this kind of representation and form result, but for some cases, it is also detected some limitations of the system, as is the case of the squared plan temple presented in MS 2037, fol. 3v, to which is proposed, according to Leonardo’s clues and a few contemporary architectonic examples, some hypothesis for the whole shape of the building.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00004-007-0057-7