Drei architektonisch-antiquarische Texte: Il libro di Vitruvio. Lettera di Raffaelo d'Urbino a Papa Leone X. Fragmentum de literis - BSB Cod.ital. 37 a.b.c
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Englische Version: The ideas of the High Renaissance were realized
in Rome during the papacy of Leo X (1513-21), a great patron of the
arts from the house of Medici. The artist Raphael (1483-1520), who
worked in Rome from 1508, obtained a number of important
commissions in this period. After Bramante's death in 1514, he was
appointed architect of the rebuilding of Saint Peter's Cathedral
and subsequently also as inspector of Rome's ancient ruins. Raphael
used the works of classical antiquity to help solve practical
architectural problems. He took the humanist Fabio Calvo into his
home to translate for him the architectural text book of the great
Roman Vitruvius. He then set about reconstructing the plan of the
ancient city of Rome by means of surveys and excavations. The
manuscript presented here contains Calvo's translations of
Vitruvius into Italian. Bound with these manuscripts is the text of
the famous letter to Leo X containing an appeal for the
preservation of the ancient Roman monuments. Raphael is now known
with certainty to be author of this letter, probably with some
assistance from the Italian courtier and writer Baldassare
Castiglione. The letter clearly sets out a method of recording
buildings in plan, elevation, and cross-section. Work on Raphael's
project was cut short by his early death and by the sack of Rome in
1527, but this letter remains notable as the foundation of
scientific archaeology. At one time owned by Pietro Vettori, these
two important manuscripts later were acquired by the Palatinate and
Bavarian elector Karl Theodor for the court library in 1783. //
Autor: Karl Dachs Subjects:
Italy
Architecture.
Raphael, 1483-1520
Archaeology.
Italien
930.1
1501
945 Gesch iTaliens
724.12 Architektur der Renaissance Publication Statement:
Rom Anfang 16. Jh.
