Martino Bassi’s “Dispareri in Materia d’Architettura et Perspettiva” are, on the one hand, a polemic against Tibaldi’s work on the Milan Cathedral, but on the other hand, above all, they represent “the most surprising and interesting example of the seriousness with which the position of the point of view in the surface of the painting…
Author: Jonas Baltensperger
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Bassi, Martino “Dispareri in Materia d’Architettura, et Perspettiva” in Brescia, 1752 Martino Bassi (1544-1591) was an architect and engineer born in Milan but originally from Lugano and best known for his opposition to the first works designed by Pellegrino Tibaldi and commissioned by Carlo Borromeo in Milan Cathedral (1569). After his opposition was unsuccessful, he published…
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Martino Bassi (1544-1591) Dispareri in Materia d’Architettura, et Perspettiva (1572, Brescia) Der in Mailand geborene, aber aus Lugano stammende Architekt und Ingenieur Martino Bassi ist vor allem für seinen Widerstand gegen die ersten von Pellegrino Tibaldi entworfenen Arbeiten im Mailänder Dom (1569) bekannt. Ein Ergebnis dieser Auseinandersetzung war Bassis Veröffentlichung von “Dispareri in materia di…
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There are many beautiful illustrations in Martino Bassi’s “Dispareri in Materia d’Architettura, et Perspettiva”. I have chosen these two because they obviously refer to the title and are clearly related to each other. It would be interesting to find out exactly how.