FRANCESCO DI GIORGIO MARTINI
(b. 1439, Siena, d. 1502, Siena)

Illustration from the Trattato di architettura

c. 1470
Drawing
Biblioteca Nazionale, Turin

The illustration represents the human body as the symbolic equivalent of a city and a castle. The church is located at the heart while the city centre (the piazza) around the navel.




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