Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy by Ng, Morgan
Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy by Ng, Morgan

Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy

A revelatory exploration of a crucial Renaissance art form--military architecture--and its unexpected connections with contemporary aesthetic, cultural,...
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Author: Morgan Ng
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Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy by Ng, Morgan

Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy

$323.57
Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy by Ng, Morgan

Form and Fortification: The Art of Military Architecture in Renaissance Italy

$323.57
Author: Morgan Ng
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
A revelatory exploration of a crucial Renaissance art form--military architecture--and its unexpected connections with contemporary aesthetic, cultural, and technological innovations

Urban fortifications were the most colossal artistic achievements of the Italian Renaissance. Celebrated sculptors, painters, and architects such as Michelangelo, Bramante, Leonardo, Francesco Paciotto, and Antonio da Sangallo the Younger collaborated with humanists and military commanders to design citadels and ramparts. Unprecedented in their geometric sophistication, constructional ambition, and physical grandeur, these monuments profoundly transformed the shape and experience of the built environment. Form and Fortification challenges the long-held assumption that military architecture was merely an instrument of warfare, restoring the practice to its central place at the nexus of sixteenth-century creative and cultural endeavors. Through a rich array of drawings, archival manuscripts, early printed sources, treatises, and realized works, this book traces the remarkable exchanges between fortification and other arenas of art, design, and engineering.

Charting these cross-disciplinary convergences, Morgan Ng develops the novel concept of "cognate technologies" to describe military and civil structures that coevolved and came to share striking formal affinities. Defensive earthworks bore the same shapes as terraced gardens; subterranean artillery chambers resembled artificial grottoes and hydraulic tunnels; and fortified passageways morphed into palatial galleries. The relationships among such cognate technologies, this book contends, are essential for understanding the interconnected nature of early modern artistic invention.

Author: Morgan Ng
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02/25/2025
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780300272048

About the Author
Morgan Ng is assistant professor of Renaissance art and architecture at Yale University.
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