Between antinomy and symmetry. Architectural drawings of presentation and comparison in the XVI Century
As part of a wider enquiry on the historical typologies of architectural
representation, this essay addresses a classification of XVI century architecture
drawings that exploit the presence of one or more symmetry axes in the
represented building. This kind of split drawings have never been studied as a
specific group of works inspired by the specific peculiarities of buildings but
only occasionally to mark a new role of architectural drawing. Actually, symmetry
combined to orthogonal projections allowed the development of graphic