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Military Architecture and Fortifications (15th-18th centuries)

Objectives

Undertsand and discuss specific issues relating to military architecture and fortification of the modern period in the disciplinary framework of art history, considering the following key objectives:
a) Understanding the basic body of knowledge about military architecture and fortification between the 15th and the 18th centuries.
b) Identifying the main works and protagonists encompassing the Early Modern architectural culture and reading the Portuguese features in the internacional context.
c) Managing concepts, methodological procedures and the knowledge on the prime sources for research in the specific field of military architecture and fortification.

General characterization

Code

722061064

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Maria Margarida Simão Tavares da Conceição

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

Albrecht Haupt. A Arquitectura do Renascimento em Portugal. Lisboa: Editorial Presença, 1986 (ed. original alemã 1890-95)
George Kubler. A Arquitectura Portuguesa Chã. Entre as Especiarias e os Diamantes, 1521-1706. Lisboa: Veja, 1988, pp. 29-46 (ed. org. inglesa 1972)
Correia, José Eduardo Horta, "A arquitectura" maneirismo e "estilo chão"\" in Vítor Serrão, ed. O Maneirismo, vol. 7 de História da Arte em Portugal. Lisboa: Alfa, 1986
Rafael Moreira. "Arquitectura: renascimento e classicismo" in Paulo Pereira, ed., História da Arte Portuguesa. Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores, 1995 (vol. 2)
Lurdes Craveiro. A Arquitectura ao Romano, vol. 9 de Dalila Rodrigues, ed. Arte Portuguesa. Lisboa: Fubu Editores, 2009

Teaching method

Lectures, case studies discussion in class and study tours. The topics will be developed on theoretical sessions, followed by practical sessions based on the review and comment of primary and bibliographical written and visual sources, documents that will be previously given out.

Evaluation method

The final evaluation should balance the preparation and participation on practical sessions(40%), The production of an individual paper resulting from autonomous research and with oral presentation in class(60%)

Subject matter

1) Early Modern military architecture and fortification specificities.
2) Experimental fortification and Renaissance architectural culture.
3) Defensive systems between the 16th and 18th centuries: the main European cycles.
Bastioned fortification as geometric system. Italian technicians.
The case of El Jadida and the defense of Portuguese sea routes.
Engineers movement under the Habsburg dominium.
The context of the Flemish wars.
The French military experiences and the action of Vauban.
Fortification of the Portuguese border. Cities of war: Elvas, Almeida and Valença,
4)Military treatises and the issue of the national schools.
Architectural treatises, mathematics and military art books in the Italian culture.
The Dutch and the French fortification school in the 17th century.
The school of Luís Serrão Pimentel and the Portuguese wars.
Manuel de Azevedo Fortes and the military learning network in the 18th century.
5)Military design and cartography: cities and territories.