Il commento di padre Orazio Grassi S.I. al primo libro sull'architettura di Marco Vitruvio Pollione
In: Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu, Jg. 69 (2000), Heft 137, S. 57-150
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The contents of Grassi's text concern the transition from a traditional understanding of architecture, classical and based on imitation of the ancients, to a freer and more subjective view, based on mathematics, optics and technical instruments with the aim of producing a result pleasing to the eye. The value of Santillo's text lies both in the textual explanation of Grassi's thought, which emerges from the analysis of his works, and also in the historical references to other contemporary authors, whether Jesuit or not, who had determined the position and the limits of architecture with respect to other disciplines (the problem of the epistemological status of architecture). Even more interesting is the author's conclusion: in the Society there never corresponded to this liberty in architecture any practice or kind of liberty in the hierarchic order. Because of this the powerful body of philosophers prevented the creation of an academy of mathematics, as Clavius desired, and above all of the foundation of an academy of architecture. Even more, to the modern Grassi, Vignola was preferred. He was preoccupied with preserving the principle of the five orders and modifying nothing in the construction of the religious buildings of the Jesuits, all of which were modelled on the classical lines of the ancients, and the prototypical Gesù.
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Il commento di padre Orazio Grassi S.I. al primo libro sull'architettura di Marco Vitruvio Pollione
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | SANTILLO, F |
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Zeitschrift: | Archivum historicum Societatis Iesu, Jg. 69 (2000), Heft 137, S. 57-150 |
Veröffentlichung: | Cleveland, OH: John Caroll University, 2000 |
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ISSN: | 0037-8887 (print) |
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