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The Art of Vaulting : Design and Construction in the Mediterranean Gothic.

Some of the highest and widest vault constructions produced in the Middle Ages are located in the Mediterranean area. Outstanding buildings with remarkable vaults and buttressing, such as the Cathedral of Majorca, are evidence of a lively technology transfer and contemporary developments. Internatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuentes Gonzalez, Paula
Otros Autores: Wunderwald, Anke
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Basel/Berlin/Boston : Birkhauser Verlag GmbH, 2019.
Colección:Kulturelle und Technische Werte Historischer Bauten Ser.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro; Preface; Wider, Lighter, Faster Building Vaults in the Medieval Mediterranean; Mediterranean Paths The Construction of Vaults in Southern Italy, Sicily and Sardinia (15th-16th Centuries); How to Design and Build Complex Rib Vaults from A to Z Principles, Practices, and Geometric Processors in International Late Gothic; Design Details of Gothic Vaults in Joseph Gelabert's Treatise on Stonecutting; The Vaults of Mallorca Cathedral Rising to a Technical Challenge
  • The Vaults of the Obra Nova in the Cathedral of Mallorca (c. 1573-1587) Written Sources about Chronology, Patronage and ConstructionConstruction Analysis of Gothic Vaults in the Cathedral of Mallorca; The Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca, a Wonder of Equilibrium Rubió i Bellver's Equilibrium Analysis of 1912; Plates