Perspectival Restoration Drawings in Roman Archaeology and Architectural History

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8889683
AutoresFrank Salmon (British Library, autor correspondente)
Ano2003
Volume83
Páginas397-424
Data de publicação2003-09-01
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Antiquaries Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-5815 • E-ISSN: 1758-5309
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s000358150007774x
OpenAlexW2143618994
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas11

This paper is concerned with the graphic means deployed since the Renaissance to restore the appearance of ancient Roman architecture, and specifically with the use of various forms of perspective. Disdained by architectural theorists from Leon Battista Alberti onwards because of its supposed subjectivity, the perspective nonetheless became a valuable tool in the second half of the eighteenth century for studying Roman architecture and urban form in pristine condition. It remained so until, with the consolidation of a more scientific approach to the discipline of archaeology in the last third of the twentieth century, it was reduced to schematic form and supplemented by isometric and axonometric projectional restorations, notably in English-language histories. The discipline of architectural history has not, however, been well served by this development, and an argument is made here for the retention of perspectival restoration and for the furtherance of the recent development of restorations modelled with the aid of computers

Archaeology · Art · Art history · Epistemology · History of architecture · Perspective (graphical · Subjectivity · The Renaissance · Visual arts · 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage · Architecture · Architecture and Art History Studies · Historical and Architectural Studies · History · Philosophy