Palatino 766 pipes, pools, cliffs, streams... (by Taccola)

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While his subject matter is already that of later Renaissance artist-engineers, his method of representation still owes much to medieval manuscript illustration. Due to the political rivalry between Siena and Florence, Taccola was never exposed to linear perspective, a growing graphical style in Florence. Moreover, Taccola drew his machines based on what looked proper to him, not based on geometrical considerations.

For someone like me who struggles with the most basic drawings, it's baffling how such an advanced artist could not understand perspective. But I guess it' something that does not come naturally?

Overall, Taccola's goal of his treatises was to shed light on old Greco-Roman machines, as opposed to principally writing about his own designs.[13] On a case-to-case basis, Taccola would cite the earlier designs imagined by Vegetius and Kyeser.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view. wrote Bellifortis around 1405, a book about war machines and military technology which clearly influenced Taccola. It contains a number of interesting illustrations including pipes.
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