Dal Theatrum Sabaudiae: disegni di fortificazioni nelle raffigurazioni celebrative di una dinastia

Abstract

[EN] In order to make the lands and places of their possessions known to European courts and communities, first Duke Carlo Emanuele II of Savoy (1634-1675) and then the Duchess Regent Maria Giovanna Battista of Savoy Nemours (1644-1724) published in 1682, in Amsterdam, at the printing works founded by the publisher and cartographer Joan Blaeu (1596-1673), the publication Theatrum Statuum Regiae Celsitudinis Sabaudiae Ducis, Pedemontii Principis, Cypri Regis. The contribution extracts and comments the graphic transcription made to represent the fortifications depicted in the views, comparing within synoptic paintings divided by theme or components, the recurrent codes of an iconographic nature contained in the one hundred and forty-five plates.