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The object of study of the Virtuosi Academy It was the The architecture of Vitruvius, here in the first Italian version, translated in 1521, with a wide comment, by Cesare Cesariano.
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L’ Academy of virtue [first] , O Trinumian Academy , was a cultural partnership that arose in Rome in 1542 [2] , on the impulse of the Sienese humanist Claudio Tolomei and under the protection of Cardinal Ippolito de ‘Medici. The association was chaired by the erudite Marcello Cervini [3] , passionate about alchemy and architecture, future pope with the name of Marcello II [4] [5] And he made use of the support of a host of Italian Renaissance intellectuals and artists, such as Vignola, Bernardino Maffei [5] , Guillaume Philandrier called the Filandro, Alessandro Manzuoli [5] , Luca Contile, Annibal Caro, Marc’antonio Flamineo, Francesco Maria Paciotti.

Title page of the Rule of five architecture orders of Vignola, considered the fruit of the Vitruvian studies urged him by the Academy

With their initiative, the “virtuous” intended to fully contribute to a theme of close relevance in the theoretical fervor that animated the reflection of the protagonists of the Renaissance art and architecture: the so -called “Vitruvian debate”, or “Vitruvian question”, Vale To say that collective cognitive effort that pushed artists, erudite and enthusiasts to the re-appropriation of the inheritance of Greco-Roman art and classical-Roman architecture, also through the reading, interpretation and commentary of the Latin Treaty The architecture , risen to vast fame in the Renaissance.

Vitruvian studies [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

Immediate purpose of the Association was the reading and commentary of the The architecture , to be held twice a week in the Palazzo dell’Arciescovo Francesco Colonna. But all this was placed within an additional, extremely ambitious end: to create a vast encyclopedic project on art and classical architecture. The ambitious purpose, which Tolomei described in a “famous letter” [6] of November 14, 1542 addressed to Count Sienese Agostino de Landi [7] [8] , can be synthesized in three points:

  • Realize an exhaustive edition of The architecture of Vitruvius
  • Accompany the treatise of the Roman architect of a lexicon comparative, thanks to which it was possible to establish a direct relationship between the techniques described by Vitruvius and the architectural testimonies survived in the vestiges of antiquity
  • Make a corpus documentary that contemplated the full Artistic production of antiquity.

Results and contributions [ change | Modifica Wikitesto ]

The enormous scope of this idea, for its very extreme ambition, was fatally destined to remain partially unrealized. However, the cultural temperature that the project presupposed, and the studies that were promoted to you were able to produce interesting results.

For example, some works by the Renaissance art and architecture treatise, such as the Treaty of Sebastiano Serlio, the Treaty of Sansovino and, in 1544, the elaboration, by Tolomei himself, can be traced back to that cultural atmosphere. of an idea of ​​the city of Foundation on Mount Argentario.

Guillaume Philandrier called the Filandro
Guillaume “Philander” (right), secretary of Georges d’Arivagnac, in a portrait of Titian.

Also in 1544, Guillaume Philandrier called Il Filandro, already a pupil of Serlio in Venice, certainly starting from his attendance of the Academy [9] during the Roman stay, he was able to produce his Annotations on the ten books of Marco Vitruvio Pollione’s “De Architectura” [9] ( In ten books, Marcus Vitruvii Pollio Architecture Notes , then released in editions enlarged in 1552 and 1586 [ten] ). The profit due to his academic attendance, the Filandro had to add his own, given that, at the time of his publication, the examination of the The architecture of Vitruvius, by the “virtuous academics”, had only come to the seventh book [9] .

Jacopo Barozzi from Vignola

Between 1537 and 1540, during his first short Roman period preceding his trip to France, Vignola studied the ancient monuments, taking measures and drawing drawings, urged in this by Marcello Cervini, Alessandro Manzuoli and Bernardino Maffei [5] , in what was proposed as a preparatory work in the field of Vitruvian studies pursued by the Academy [3] [11] and that he was very useful in learning his art [5] .

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In 1562 Vignola published the treaty entitled Rule of five architecture orders , composed a long time before [11] , around 1540 [twelfth] , which had widespread diffusion throughout Europe until the nineteenth century. It is believed that the origin of that treaty is to be found precisely in environment cultural of Roman academics [twelfth] and in that series of studies and drawings, now lost, which he performed in Rome on behalf of the Academy of Virtue [11] .

  1. ^ Also called Virtuosi Academy .
  2. ^ Other authors trace the foundation to winter 1540-1541. See Frédérique lemerle, “Philanderr et le Texte de Vitruve”, cit. , p. 518
  3. ^ a b Arnaldo Bruschi, Beyond the Renaissance. Architecture, city, territory in the second half of the sixteenth century , cit. , p. 86
  4. ^ Frédérique Lemerle, “Philandrier and Vitruve’s text”, cit. , p. 518
  5. ^ a b c d It is Giorgio Vasari, The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architectors. Life of Taddeo Zuccari , on. Cit.
  6. ^ Arnaldo Bruschi, Beyond the Renaissance. Architecture, city, territory in the second half of the sixteenth century , cit. , note 83 pag. 877
  7. ^ Frédérique Lemerle, “Philandrier and Vitruve’s text”, cit. , p. 518-519 – Note
  8. ^ Claudio Tolomei, Of the letters of M. Claudio Tolomei Books Seven , Venice, 1547, fol. 81-85 (also on pages 247-261 in the edition by Paolo Sanchez, Available online are Google Books)
  9. ^ a b c Frédérique Lemerle, “Philandrier and Vitruve’s text”, cit. , p. 519
  10. ^ Frédérique Lemerle, “Philandrier and Vitruve’s text”, cit. , p. 518 – Notet
  11. ^ a b c Margaret Daly Davis, “Jacopo Vignola, Alessandro Manzuoli and the Villa Isolani in Minerbio: for the early antique studies of Vignola”, in Messages from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence , 36. BD., H. 3, 1992, pages 287-328.
  12. ^ a b Arnaldo Bruschi, Beyond the Renaissance. Architecture, city, territory in the second half of the sixteenth century , cit. , p. 87
  • Gianni Carlo SCO (a Cura di), The ideal city in the Renaissance , with introductory essay by Luigi Firpo, Utet, Turin, 1975 (p. 39)
  • Giorgio Vasari, The lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architectors. Life of Taddeo Zucchero da Sant’agnolo in Vado
  • Margaret Daly Davis, “Jacopo Vignola, Alessandro Manzuoli and the Villa Isolani in Minerbio: for the early antique studies of Vignola”, in Messages from the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florence , 36. BD., H. 3, 1992, pages 287-328
  • Frédérique Lemerle, “Philandrier and Vitruve’s text”, in Mixtures of the French school in Rome, Italy and Mediterranean , T. 106, n. 2, 1994, pagg. 517-529.
  • Claudio Tolomei, Of the letters of M. Claudio Tolomei Books Seven , Venice, 1547, fol. 81-85
  • Arnaldo Bruschi, Beyond the Renaissance. Architecture, city, territory in the second half of the sixteenth century , Jaca Book, 2000

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