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| Accesso online: | https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/nun-overview.xml |
| Autore principale: | Camerota, Filippo, 1960-
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| Titolo: | Architecture and science in baroque Rome : the mathematical ornaments of Villa Pamphilj / Filippo Camerota. |
| Abstract: | Among those projects traditionally attributed to Francesco Borromini, the one for Villa Pamphily has roused the most controversy. The drawings of the villa are clearly in his hand; however, historians are uncertain to what extent he is to be credited with the conception of the building's particular scientific program as "a study of practical mathematics". This program, proposing refined applications of optics, catoptrics, dioptrics, gnomonics, astronomy, acoustic, and magnetism, has generally been interpreted as an uncommon expression of Borromini's ingenuity assisted by the scientific knowledge of Virgilio Spada, the architect's friend and collaborator to whom we owe the preservation of the drawings and writings concerning Villa Pamphilj. However, unlike the drawings that scholars have so carefully examined in checking their attribution, the scientific program has heretofore never undergone a critical reading. This study proposes an attentive reading of the original Latin version of the program, a document only recently rediscovered, that leads us to attribute the authorship of the "mathematical ornaments" of Villa Pamphilj to the French matematician Emmanuel Maignan. Furthermore, this reading compels us to reconsider the sources of certain formal elements in Borromini's work in the context of the period̉s scientific discoveries |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Nuncius A. 15, fasc. 2 (2000), p. 611-638 |
| Discipline: | Architettura--Persone. Scienze--Persone. |
| Persone: | Maignan, Emanuel, 1601-1676. Borromini, Francesco, 1599-1667. |
| Luoghi: | Roma. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
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