A fine starting point when trying to piece together a history of building–techniques in Venice between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the treatises of those working in the area at the time. These include Sebastiano Serlio, Daniele Barbaro, Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Antonio Rusconi, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Giuseppe Viola Zanini and Francesco Sansovino. Some nineteenth century manuals, from the same area, are also useful. Their authors include Francesco Milizia, Daniele Danieletti, Nicola Cavalieri–San Bertolo, Francesco Lazzari and Antonio Clementini. However, to be able to reconstruct with greater thoroughness the history of building–techniques in a set period or geographical area case–studies particularly documented in the archives need to be found. On top of the written records, it is also necessary that those case–studies haven’t been subjected to much alteration over time. This paper focuses on Palazzo Donà dalle Rose in Venice’s Fondamenta Nuove (1610–1612). There is a particularly rich and complete archival material for the building in question, which inclused. The account books from during its construction, written out by the same man who commissioned the building, the Doge Leonardo Donà (r. 1606–1612). Those records, still housed in the family’s private archives, have made it possible to piece together in detail the Donà building–site. In this paper, in particular, are illustrated the use of wood, with special reference to the foundations, floors and roofing, and the use of iron as well as the workforce, with contracts, salaries and labour costs.

Un doge sui ponteggi: i libri dei conti di fabbrica del Palazzo Donà dalle Rose a Venezia

giulia ceriani sebregondi
2019

Abstract

A fine starting point when trying to piece together a history of building–techniques in Venice between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are the treatises of those working in the area at the time. These include Sebastiano Serlio, Daniele Barbaro, Andrea Palladio, Giovanni Antonio Rusconi, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Giuseppe Viola Zanini and Francesco Sansovino. Some nineteenth century manuals, from the same area, are also useful. Their authors include Francesco Milizia, Daniele Danieletti, Nicola Cavalieri–San Bertolo, Francesco Lazzari and Antonio Clementini. However, to be able to reconstruct with greater thoroughness the history of building–techniques in a set period or geographical area case–studies particularly documented in the archives need to be found. On top of the written records, it is also necessary that those case–studies haven’t been subjected to much alteration over time. This paper focuses on Palazzo Donà dalle Rose in Venice’s Fondamenta Nuove (1610–1612). There is a particularly rich and complete archival material for the building in question, which inclused. The account books from during its construction, written out by the same man who commissioned the building, the Doge Leonardo Donà (r. 1606–1612). Those records, still housed in the family’s private archives, have made it possible to piece together in detail the Donà building–site. In this paper, in particular, are illustrated the use of wood, with special reference to the foundations, floors and roofing, and the use of iron as well as the workforce, with contracts, salaries and labour costs.
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