TY - JOUR AU - Bertoncini Sabatini, Paolo PY - 2020/07/13 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Veritas e Imagines. Piranesi e la natura ambigua del triglifo nella logica funzionale della trabeazione dorica JF - Restauro Archeologico JA - ra VL - 27 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.13128/rar-8184 UR - https://oaj.fupress.net/index.php/ra/article/view/8184 SP - 28-49 AB - <p>In the eighteenth century, experiences and pressures converged on the Doric that were<br>the result of rediscoveries and of more or less analytical studies, but together with<br>stylistic questions linked to the evolution of proportions over time there was a practical<br>requirement for empirical understanding of the forms followed by Piranesi. In his ‘Della<br>Magnificenza’, the architect aimed to investigate the functionality of some of the order’s<br>basic articulations, not by chance focusing on the texture of the horizontal elements<br>and the effective tectonic coherence of the crucial triglyph, which was regarded as the<br>their formalised memory. The ambiguous nature of the triglyph is confirmed by the<br>sensational truth of its origin. In the epiphany of this revelation, mimetic realism finds,<br>unexpectedly, its most lucid and surprising representation and an extremely logical<br>correspondence between ‘veritas’ and ‘imagines’.</p> ER -