Historic Memories about the Great Dome of the Vatican Church by Giovanni Poleni
Synoptic translation

Area 08 – Ingegneria civile e Architettura

The Historic Memories about the Great Dome of the Vatican Church is a fundamental essay on architectural structural restoration; in this book Giovanni Poleni (1685–1761), who is one of the most authoritative Italian scholars of his times, describes the eighteenth-century restoration works of the Dome in the Vatican Church. The Vatican Dome, designed in and partially built by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564), is one of the most significant monuments of architectural history and even today constitutes an unmatched typological reference. The Historic Memories proposes and describes an innovative introduction and coding of the scientific method in the discipline of restoration, as a process of anamnesis (description of the current conditions; history of the building), diagnosis (analysis of materials, including experimental tests, understanding of the technical constructive aspects) and prognosis (design and execution of the restorations, with subsequent verification of their effectiveness).

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