The bell tower, as a slender structure, is an element with an inherent vertical nature whose visual-perceptual impact is such as to make it an evident identity landscape’s ‘marker’ where it is located. The aim of this paper is to analyse the Neapolitan bell tower system in relation to the image of the 16th century city. Specifically, the first phase of study involves identifying the bell towers on the “Pianta della città di Napoli” by Antoine Lafréry in 1566. Instead, in the second one the data emerged from the studies on the cataloguing of Neapolitan bell towers made it possible to carry out a comparative analysis of the morphological characteristics among the types identified in Lafréry's view and their contemporary counterparts.
The identity drawing of places. Bell towers in sixteenth-century Naples by Antoine Lafréry
Vincenzo, Cirillo
;Riccardo, Miele
2022
Abstract
The bell tower, as a slender structure, is an element with an inherent vertical nature whose visual-perceptual impact is such as to make it an evident identity landscape’s ‘marker’ where it is located. The aim of this paper is to analyse the Neapolitan bell tower system in relation to the image of the 16th century city. Specifically, the first phase of study involves identifying the bell towers on the “Pianta della città di Napoli” by Antoine Lafréry in 1566. Instead, in the second one the data emerged from the studies on the cataloguing of Neapolitan bell towers made it possible to carry out a comparative analysis of the morphological characteristics among the types identified in Lafréry's view and their contemporary counterparts.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
