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edarq Revista de Cultura Arquitectónica 2014
Joelho
#05 Digital Alberti:
Tradition
and InNovation
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Coordination:
Mário Krüger
José P. Duarte
Gonçalo Canto Moniz
Terry Knight
Marta Oliveira
José António Bandeirinha
Mário D’Agostino /
Andrea Loewen
harmony of all the parts within a body, so that nothing may be added, taken
away, or altered, but for the worse. However, he also distinguishes a form
of auxiliary light and complement to beauty: ornamentum.
The distinction between an inherent beauty and an attached one,
arising from additions, is indebted to the Rhetoric. Under the guidance
of Cicero and Quintilian, Alberti defines the ornament as the realm
of the particular. As in Oratory, in Architecture ornament is the great
instrument to differentiate the types and parts that identify the various
buildings; it corrects and enhances its forms and offers them character,
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monumental architecture from the fourth and fifth centuries was the
ancient architecture that survived in better conditions, and thus was
studied by Francesco di Giorgio, as well as early Christian architecture:
it was this which was considered typically Roman. Still, as Tafuri (1993,
p. 24) recalls, foglio 72r of the codex Saluzziano shows two ancient 4. Model of the Duomo according to Francesco
di Giorgio's project. Model by Grazia Sgrilli and
buildings that can be related to the Duomo as conceived by Martini: the Manfredo Tafuri. Photo Sgrilli.
theater of Gubbio, for its pillars swept by entablatures and cornices;
and the theater of Ferento, for the absolute lack of the orders. What
matters to the issue is that these are monuments whose rhetoric denies
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the visual hedonism of the adorned Antiquity; that choice certainly led
Francesco di Giorgio to Alberti.
Tafuri (1993, pp. 24–25) convincingly defends that Francesco's
inventions owe a lot to Alberti. The arches on pillars that define the
tripartite nave of the Duomo recall the sides of the Malatesta Temple
in Rimini and the Duomo's grand barrel vault, boldly built without
buttresses, is one of the first structural experiences of such kind in the
fifteenth century, after the Abadia fiesolana and the Albertian model for 5. The Nicchioni. Todi. Photo Fantasy.
Sant´Andrea in Mantua. Given the close relationship between the courts
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of Mantua and Urbino, the scholar assumes that Martini may have known,
if not the model itself, at least drawings of the temple.
Although the affinities between the two architects cannot be
attributed to a direct reading of the Latin text of the De re aedificatoria,
it can be assumed that Alberti's ideas were known to the humanists
in the intellectual world of Urbino, which Martini frequented on and
off between 1477 and 1490. In addition to the testimony of his works,
Francesco's treatise also shows some assimilations of the Albertian
notion of inner beauty. In the chapter on temples he argues that the
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sacred temples must be made of the most varied and diverse forms
according to the invention, subtlety and talent (ingegno) of the architect,
always respecting the measurements and proportions belonging to them, 6. Arco di Augusto. Fano. Photo Parsifall.
which are all derived from the human body (Martini, 1967, vol. I, p. 36).
However, unlike Alberti's, Francesco's writing on architecture was
never published; nonetheless, his manuscripts were known in most
circles and circulated in various forms throughout the Italian peninsula
and beyond (See Payne, 1999, pp. 89–90 and Onians, 1988, p. 171).
If an essentially theoretical character prevails in the treatises of the
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p. II). From the many models suggested by the ancients and freely
interpreted by the architects of the preceding generation, he defines
the only model, elevated to the stature of canon: archetype cunningly
extracted from an Antiquity ideal, abstract, timeless and, thus, reinvented
and reduced to a unifying rule (Loewen & Azevedo, 2010, p. 14).
With this work, Vignola intended to offer his readers the
only measure of the beautiful and the correct. The clarity and ease of
use of this treatise caused it to become the most published book in
architectural history in succeeding centuries.
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