Yet, for the ancients this type of construction appeared to present no problem what so ever.Back in the conformist ‘50s when some Americans felt oppressed, there was a backlash fashion for the art of the 18th-Century Italian engraver Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Obviously it is much easier to use a more practical, and better understood approach. Could we build a bridge like in the images above? Sure we could, but it would probably cost its weight in gold. Today, our civilization is using techniques which fall in line with the direction of our technological development. It's prior to the magic 1920 date.Īpparently we do not build bridges like this any more. The last one was built over 110 years ago. Why? The same Wikipedia article lists quite a few examples of these Skew Arch Bridges. Nowhere in that article does it show what's below the surface. View attachment 2008 (are those Egyptian symbols above?) View attachment 2012 View attachment 2014 View attachment 2011 View attachment 2000 View attachment 2001 View attachment 2021 multiple bricks are "custom" made for their specific location in the structure View attachment 2002 View attachment 2003 View attachment 2006 View attachment 2009 View attachment 2010 View attachment 2013 View attachment 2004 View attachment 2005 View attachment 2007 There is an article in Wikipedia about this type of bridges. Very glad i found this forum, thanks for all your hard work! It is very hard for me to believe that someone with such a great attention to accuracy and detail just decided to make some things up. He became the Director of the Portici Museum in 1751." Piranesi may have recognised his role to disseminate remarkable information through meaningful images. Piranesi's precise observational skills allow people to experience the atmosphere in Rome in the eighteenth century. A third of the monuments in Piranesi's engravings have disappeared, and the stucco and surfacings were often stolen, restored and modified clumsily. To do this, Piranesi pushed himself to achieve realism in his work. Piranesi tried to preserve them with his engravings. Most ancient monuments in Rome were abandoned in fields and gardens. He left explanatory notes in the lower margin about the structure and ornament. His influence of technical drawings in antiquarian publications is often overshadowed. "It is important to look at his contribution as an archaeologist, which was acknowledged at the time as he had been elected to the London Society of Antiquaries. How could Piranesi know all this? Did he come up on some old documents, and just copied those? Did those construction workers of the past have to reroute the river to lay this huge complicated foundation? What we see above the water is a small portion of what's hidden below.Ĭomparing rare humans depicted in the drawings to the magnitude of the structures, I could only wonder how they managed to pull it off. Whoever chooses to pay close attention will notice, that this bridge is like an iceberg. This time it is going to be a few bridge building plans, and images of the constructed bridges. Well, here is one additional example of something made up by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Sounds pretty similar to our cartographers of the past, who were accused of filling in the blank spots on the maps with some fake data. Today's scholars preach that Piranesi's images influenced future Romanticism and Surrealism. From the traditionally taught point of view, both of the above questions are incorrect from the get go.
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