[EN] During the Modern Age, various European courts consolidated the tradition of the manufacture of plans-reliefs of fortified cities as a complement to other forms of representation (maps and plans) used within the ...

[EN] During the Sixteenth century and the first half of the following one, Sicily played a key role in the strategy of defense of the Spanish Empire from the looming Turkish threat, being an island considered as a baluarte ...

[EN] Starting from the second half of the fifteenth century, the design model that will characterize the so-called "modern" military architecture is perfected. Large is the repertoire of models produced by the illustrious ...