Military Architecture and the Radial City Plan in Sixteenth Century Italy

1960 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Horst de la Croix
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
City Plan

scholarly journals Planning Bastions:

2019 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-48
Author(s):  
Pieter Martens
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
High Concentration ◽  
Low Countries ◽  
Critical Moment

In the sixteenth century, chronic wars and a high concentration of towns made the Low Countries one of Europe's prime laboratories for innovations in military architecture and urbanism. The 1553 inspection tour of the region by engineers Giovanni Maria Olgiati and Sebastian van Noyen marked the assimilation of “Italian-style” fortifications into Netherlandish practice and the transition there from defenses with bastions to proper bastioned systems. Olgiati and Van Noyen's joint tour is well documented through a dozen design drawings now held at the Vatican Library, Turin's Archivio di Stato, and Madrid's Palacio Real, as well as a closely related atlas in Turin and complementary archival records. As Pieter Martens discusses in Planning Bastions: Olgiati and Van Noyen in the Low Countries in 1553, these materials, including many hitherto unknown plans, provide new insights into the design process, offer a unique panorama of the Low Countries' border defenses at this critical moment, and illuminate the genesis and spread of bastioned fortifications in Europe.

Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena

1988 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 520
Author(s):  
David G. Chandler ◽  
Simon Pepper ◽  
Nicholas Adams
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
Siege Warfare

scholarly journals The superb Brazilian Fortresses of Macapá and Príncipe da Beira

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Campos
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
Construction Process ◽  
Cross Point ◽  
Regional Conflict ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Right

During the eighteenth century Portugal developed a large military construction process in the Ultramarine possessions, in order to compete with the new born colonial trading empires, mainly Great Britain, Netherlands and France. The Portuguese colonial seashores of the Atlantic Ocean (since the middle of the sixteenth century) and of the Indian Ocean (from the end of the first quarter of the seventeenth century) were repeatedly coveted, and the huge Portuguese colony of Brazil was also harassed in the south during the eighteenth century –here due to problems in a diplomatic and military dispute with Spain, related with the global frontiers’ design of the Iberian colonies. The Treaty of Madrid (1750) had specifically abrogated the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) between Portugal and Spain, and the limits of Brazil began to be defined on the field. Macapá is situated in the western branch of Amazonas delta, in the singular cross-point of the Equator with Tordesillas Meridian, and the construction of a big fortress began in the year of 1764 under direction of Enrico Antonio Galluzzi, an Italian engineer contracted by Portuguese administration to the Commission of Delimitation, which arrived in Brazil in 1753. In consequence of the political panorama in Europe after the Seven Years War (1756-1763), a new agreement between Portugal and Spain was negotiated (after the regional conflict in South America), achieved to the Treaty of San Idefonso (1777), which warranted the integration of the Amazonas basin. It was strategic the decision to build, one year before, the huge fortress of Príncipe da Beira, arduously realized in the most interior of the sub-continent, 2000 km from the sea throughout the only possible connection by rivers navigation. Domingos Sambucetti, another Italian engineer, was the designer and conductor of the jobs held on the right bank of Guaporé River, future frontier’s line with Bolivia. São José de Macapá and Príncipe da Beira are two big fortresses Vauban’ style, built under very similar projects by two Italian engineers (each one dead with malaria in the course of building), with the observance of the most exigent rules of the treaties of military architecture.

Firearms and Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena

1988 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Garcia y Robertson ◽  
Simon Pepper ◽  
Nicholas Adams
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
Siege Warfare

scholarly journals Fortificazioni della Tunisia contese tra Spagnoli e Turchi a metà del secolo XVI, documentate dall’iconografia coeva. Un’analisi dal ter-ritorio all’architettura

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pia Davico
Keyword(s):  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Mediterranean Sea ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Military Architecture ◽  
State Archive ◽  
Archival Collection ◽  
Cadiz Bay ◽  
State Archives

Tunisian fortifications disputed between Spaniards and Turks in the mid-sixteenth century, documented by coeval iconography. An analysis from the territory to the architectureThe five volumes of the precious archival collection of drawings called Architettura Militare (Military Architecture), kept at the Archivio di Stato di Torino (Turin State Archive), propose documents made mostly by military engineers from the half of the sixteenth to the following first decade. The tomes collect mostly drawings of places under the aegis of the Duchy of Savoy, apart from the second one, dedicated to documents of Spanish military interest (Mediterranean Sea and Lombardy maps). As I pointed out at Fortmed Convention 2018, the reason why these documents are kept at the Turin State Archives is because of their belonging to Catherine of Aragon, daughter of the Spanish king and wife of Carlo Emanuele I di Savoia. In the volume Architettura Militare II (Military Architecture II) 26 tables, all datable from 1522 (Rhodes) to 1596 (Cadiz), concern territories, walled cities and fortifications, of islands and Mediterranean coasts, disputed by Christians and Turks for the supremacy on the sea. In the previous study I had examined drawings about Egypt, eastern Ottoman territories and Holy Land coasts, Spanish possessions as Perpignan and Cadiz bay. In this new study instead, I would like to examine in depth the iconography about Tunisia. Those drawings, so different from each other for scale and graphic quality, document those phases in which the Spanish control is characterized by alternate situations: the Iberian presidio dates back to 1535, reconquered by Ottomans in 1570, it is taken back in three years by Christians who keep it until 1574 only, when the whole Tunisian territory, precious bastion for the control of routes and trades, definitely returns in the hands of the Turks.

De Diego de Vera a Juan Martín Zermeño: tres siglos de reformas en la arquitectura del castillo viejo de Rosalcazar en Orán, Argelia

X ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Bravo-Nieto ◽  
Sergio Ramírez-González ◽  
Kouider Metair
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Military Architecture

From Diego de Vera to Juan Martín Zermeño: three centuries of alterations in the architecture of the old castle of Rosalcazar in Oran, AlgeriaThe ancient castle of Rosalcazar is a military architecture that is part of the Oran’s defensive system, in Algeria. His structure was built in the sixteenth century by Diego de Vera, and it reflects the approaches of the Spanish fortification of the reign of Ferdinand the Catholic. These constructions were increased with later alterations, until their consolidation during the term of the governor and engineer Juan Martín Zermeño. The architectural ensemble represented an interesting evolution of the Spanish fortification since the beginning of the sixteenth century until the middle of the eighteenth century, preserving each extension of the elements of the prior period that they are shown in the heritage ensemble of maximum interest.

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