The Romanesque Geometry of the Calcarenite Cliff: Volumetric Mastery and Early Medieval Crypt Layouts in the Duomo and Pieve of San Leo The hill-town of San Leo preserves on its calcarenite cliff two of the Romanesque period’s most instructive sanctuaries: the cathedral of San Leone, reconsecrated in 1173, and the […]
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The Geometry of the Malatesta and Montefeltro Shield: Renaissance Bastion Evolution, Scarped Bulwarks, and Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s Inventions at the Fortress of San Leo Perched on an isolated rock promontory above the Val Marecchia, the Fortress of San Leo encodes in its layered masonry the transformation that early gunpowder […]
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