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Designs for five fortresses for ideal cities: elevations and sections

RIBA Ref No RIBA85660
Architect/DesignerScamozzi, Vincenzo (1548-1616)
Subject Date1600
Image Date1615
StyleRenaissance
MediumPrint
Library ReferenceEW E.e.440
OrientationLandscape
Colour InfoColour
CreditRIBA Collections
SubjectFortifications ; City walls
SOURCE: Vincenzo Scamozzi. L'Idea della architettura universale' (Venice, 1615), part W1, book 2, ch. XXVII, p. 200-201 NOTES: In the 1590s Scamozzi had been involved in the design of the ideal fortified town of Palmanova in north-east Italy and his experience of that design was reflected in book 2 of part 1 which was devoted to military architecture.
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