FORM AND FORTIFICATION : THE ART OF MILITARY ARCHITECTURE IN RENAISSANCE ITALY.
Code: L105
Price: £65
Category(s): New Books, Fortification,
256pp., 134 colour & 41 b/w illus. 2025. 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.