La descripción vitruviana del capitel jónico y su interpretación gráfica
[EN] In the Ten Books on Architecture, Vitruvius specifies the design of the Ionic Capital in more detail than for any other element. However, the result of the drawing of the architecture writers, mainly emerged in the Renaissance in the light of the Vitruvian text, is very different according to e...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) |
| Repositorio: | RiuNet. Repositorio Institucional de la Universitat Politécnica de Valéncia |
| Idioma: | español inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:riunet.upv.es:10251/192756 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://riunet.upv.es/handle/10251/192756 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Vitruvius Ionic capital Capital dimension Treatise on architecture Classical and Renaissance Architecture Vitruvio Capitel jónico Dimensión de capitel Tratado de arquitectura Arquitectura Clásica y del Renacimiento |
| Sumario: | [EN] In the Ten Books on Architecture, Vitruvius specifies the design of the Ionic Capital in more detail than for any other element. However, the result of the drawing of the architecture writers, mainly emerged in the Renaissance in the light of the Vitruvian text, is very different according to each author. This article is an unpublished piece of research that has been extensively developed in what represents an equally to date unpublished doctoral thesis, and whose court was of national and international participation of Architectural Graphic Expression researchers. We believe that this international EGA journal is the most appropriate means to give knowledge on part of the original research. Not only is the layout of the Ionic Capital controversial among the various treatise writers throughout the history of architecture, but also among the translations of the Vitruvian Treatise consulted. There are disparities between them that are reflected both in relation to the height up to which one thickness of the Abacus or another is adopted, as well as in the location of the eye of the Volute with respect to the Astragalus. This difficulty of literally explaining what has to be executed is easily solved by graphical methods. For this reason, Vitruvio refers us, for the layout of this Capital, to the figure included in the last book that, together with other drawings, have not come down to us. We expose the unknowns related to this element in various treatises and translations of Vitruvio' s text, resolving, in our investigation, three important questions: The modular relationship of its dimensions, the arrangement of the eye of the Volute in relation to the Astragalus of the Shaft and the necessary sizing by geometric methods of the Capital in order to obtain a determined Column height. |
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