On Architectural Prints Trips in the Eighteenth Century. The Studio d’Architettura Civile by Domenico de Rossi and its influence in Spain.

Abstract

The following essay aims to study the different uses and reception in the Eighteenthcentury Spain and influential an extraordinary repertoire of architectural prints, primarily from the Baroque and Renaissance Rome, published in three volumes, by Domenico Rossi, entitled Studio d’Architettura Civile (Rome, 1702, 1711 and 1721). Propaganda instrument of Roman greatness, this work was a real manual for the teaching of architecture at the Accademia di San Luca in the first half of the eighteenth century. Representation on orthogonal projection of the most important buildings of Modern Rome, including details and fragments of architecture, its diffusion in Spain was early, both courtiers and academic areas, in addition to being among other local architects, including intellectuals, scholars, kings, princes and nobles.These different ways of using it, in peculiar traveling Roman architectural models, are the focus of the study.