CHAPTER XIX — Critical Commentary & Notes¶
How the Architect Must Govern Himself in Cramped and Irregular Sites, Why Continuous Geometric Proportion Is Wider Than Discrete Numerical Proportion, and Praise of Master Piero della Francesca.
Historical & Mathematical Commentary¶
:person:`*Piero della Francesca’s * <piero-della-francesca>`Legend of the True Cross at Arezzo and :cite:`De Prospectiva Pingendi <piero:prospectiva>` at Urbino**: This passage on Folio 0081 (
f. 33r) is one of the earliest and most authoritative Renaissance tributes to :person:`*Piero della Francesca <piero-della-francesca>`* (c. 1415–1492), listing every major city where Piero worked (Urbino, Bologna, Ferrara, Rimini, Ancona, Sansepolcro, and Arezzo), noting his mastery of both oil and tempera/gouache on wall and panel (in muro e taula a oglio e guazzo), singling out the Cappella Maggiore of San Francesco in Arezzo (la magna capella dela tribuna del’altar grande) as “vna dele dignissime opere de Italia e da tutti commendata”, and citing Piero’s manuscript treatise :cite:`De Prospectiva Pingendi <piero:prospectiva>` in the Ducal Library of Urbino!
Philological and Folio Apparatus¶
1509 Paganini Witness Folios: 0080, 0081 (f. 32v–f. 33r)
Winterberg 1889 Italian Source:
winterberg/02_architectura_italian/019_cap_XIX.txtWinterberg 1889 German Source:
winterberg/04_architectura_german/019_cap_XIX.txtMarginal Woodcut Diagrams: 0 figure(s) extracted from the 1509 Venice witness.