TY - JOUR 
A1 - Calvo López, José
AU - Molina Gaitán, Juan Carlos
AU - Natividad Vivó, Pau
AU - Alonso Rodríguez, Miguel Ángel
AU - Rabasa Díaz, Enrique
AU - López Mozo, Ana
AU - Taín Guzmán, Miguel
AU - Sánchez Pravia, José Antonio
T1 - Surveying a Sixteenth-Century Full-Scale Working Drawing. The Tracing for the Sail Vault at the Vestry of Murcia Cathedral
Y1 - 2013
SN - 1558-3058
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10317/9148
AB - Full-scale tracings, drawn in plaster surfaces or engraved in stone walls and floors, were used frequently in Renaissance construction, in order to control the execution of ashlar masonry. In many occasions, these tracings furnished the shape of
the templates used in the dressing process, either in true size or orthogonal projection.
A large example of these tracings appeared in 2009 in the vestry of Murcia cathedral, when the sacristy drawers were disassembled in order to execute a conservation treatment against woodworm. At first sight, the tracing seemed to be related to the vault over the vestry, built in 1525 by Jacopo Torni l'Indaco, one of the first examples of ashlar sail vaults in Europe; a number of surveys confirmed that the tracing corresponds with the vault quite precisely. After an introductory section dealing with tracings and dressing techniques, the authors explain the measuring methods used in the surveys, describe the tracing, compare the tracing and the built vault, and discuss the relevance of the tracing for the history of dressing methods in European ashlar masonry.
KW - Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica
KW - Renaissance construction
KW - Ashlar masonry
KW - Working drawings
KW - Stereotomy
KW - Full-scale tracings
KW - Surveying
KW - Sail vaults
KW - Templates
KW - Squaring
KW - Jacopo Torni
KW - Murcia cathedral
LA - eng
PB - Taylor & Francis
ER -