Empiricism, the Imagination,
and Carlo Fontana’s Inverted Architectural Book
Kimberley Skelton
ovanni Battista Costaguti, Architettura della Carlo Fontana, Il Tem
mpio Vaticano e sua
asilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano, 1684, title
origine, 1694, title page
p
ge
Sebastiano Serlio, Tutte l’opera
d’architettura et prospetiva, 1619, t
page
o Fontana, Il Tempio Vaticano e sua origine,
4, site plan of St. Peter’s
Giovanni Battista Costaguti,
C
Costaguti
Architettura della Basilica di S.
S Pietro in Vaticano,
Vaticano 1684,
1684
plan of St. Peter’s
ea Palladio, I quattro libri
architettura, 1570, Palazzo Capra
Carlo
C
l Fontana,
F t
A fit ttro Flavio,
Anfiteat
Fl i 1725,
1725 project
j t for
f a church
h h dedicated
d di t d to
t Christian
Ch i ti martyr
t
inside the Colosseum, elevation/section
e
with plan and elevation of church
Roland Fréart, sieur du Chambray, A Parallel of the
Antient Architecture with the Modern,
Modern 1664,
1664
comparison of Serlio’s and Vignola’s Ionic Orders
[English translation of Parallèle de l’architecture
antique avec la moderne]
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, Entwurff einer historischen
Archittectur, 1725, Egyptian pyramids
Carlo Fontana, Discorso sopra l’antico Monte Citatorio
o, 1708, elevation and ground floor plan of Fontana’s
initial design for the Curia
Giovanni Battista Falda, Il nuo
ovo teatro delle fabriche,
et edificii, in prospettiva di Ro
oma moderna, 1665,
Piazza Colonna
Domenico Fontana, Della trasportatione
dell’Obelisco Vaticano, 1590,
transporting the Vatican Obelisk
Carlo Fontana, Il Tempio Vaticano e sua
C
o
origine,
1694, transporting the Vatican
O
Obelisk
René Descartes, La dioptrique, 1637, diagram of human
vision
Sheet demonstrating telescopes by Giuseppe Campani,
early 1680s
Telescope test sheet sent by Paolo Falconieri in Rome to Lorenzo Magalotti in
Florence (witth notes of test results), 1664
Robert Fludd, Ars memoriae, in Utriusque
Cosmi…Historia, 1619, title page
nasius Kircher, Musurgia universalis, 1650, hall with talking statuee
Carlo Fontana, Design for medal commemorating pr
wing of Ospizio di S. Michele a Ripa, Rome, c. 1704