TY - JOUR 
A1 - Alonso Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel
AU - Calvo López, José
T1 - Prospettiva Soldatesca: An Empirical Approach  to the Representation of Military Architecture  in the Early Modern Period
Y1 - 2014
SN - 1590-5896

UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/9147
AB - The paper deals with the history of military perspective, that is, cavalier per-spective with a horizontal projection plane. After surveying briefly its remote origins in ancient and mediaeval transoblique or ‘Egyptian’ perspective, the au-thors explain how military perspective arose to fulfill the needs of military archi-tecture representation, in particular the depiction of the new bastion systems that were introduced in the late fifteen and sixteenth centuries as an answer to the appearance of gunpowder and artillery. Next, the paper follows its gradual expansion into broader fields as a general technical drawing procedure, while remarking a puzzling fact: until the 19th, this technique was not conceived as a projection, in contrast to orthographic drawing and linear perspective. Nev-ertheless, its awkard ‘legalisation’ in the late nineteenth century paved the way for its adoption as the most significant graphic device of the architecture of the twentieth century.
KW - Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica
KW - Military architecture
KW - Fortresses
KW - Bastions
KW - Architectural representation
KW - Francesco di Giorgio Martini
KW - Cavalier perspective
KW - Giovanni Battista Zanchi
KW - Robert Corneweyle
KW - Baldassare Peruzzi
KW - Buonaiuto Lorini
KW - Jean Du Breuil
KW - Hendrik Hondius
KW - Auguste Choisy
LA - eng
PB - Springer Basel
ER -