W4443x Baroque and Rococ0 Architecture 5 : February 3, 2004 The ...

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W4443x Baroque and Rococ0 Architecture

5: February 3, 2004

The Architecture of War: Mapping, Vauban’s Citadels, and Military Urbanism

Leonardo da Vinci, plan of Imola, 1502

Jacopo de’Barbari, map of Venice, 1500

Leonardo Bufalini, map of Rome, 1551

Giovanni Battista Falda, map of Rome, 1676

Jacques Gomboust, map of Paris, 1662

Giovanni Battista Nolli (1701-56), map of Rome, 1748

Jacques Callot, Siege of La Rochelle, 1629-30

Ichnographic projection

Sebastien Le Prestre de Vauban (1633-1707)

Superintendant of fortifications

Vauban’s French Citadels

pré-carrée

Lille, 1669

Longwy, 1679

Neuf-Brisach, 1698

Richelieu, France,1630-42

Cardinal Richelieu

Jacques Le Mercier, château and new town

Rochefort, France, 1666

Turin, Italy

Cristina, Madama Reale (reigned 1637-63), daughter of Henri IV

Carlo di Castellamonte, Expansion project, c. 1615

Città Nouva

Siege of Turin, 1639-40

Piazza Reale, 1642

Bastion: served as gun platform that provided flanking cannon fire

Flanking: every part of the fortification is visible from another part

Length of curtain wall between two bastions determined by the shooting range of the

adjacent bastion

Outworks: ravelins; half-moons; tenailles; hornworks; crownworks