Del modo pratticatto dall'Autore per divertire le corrosioni della Via Flaminia
| Reference: | S52108 |
| Author | Cornelis Janszoon Meijer |
| Year: | 1683 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 215 x 150 mm |
€400.00
| Reference: | S52108 |
| Author | Cornelis Janszoon Meijer |
| Year: | 1683 |
| Zone: | Rome |
| Printed: | Rome |
| Measures: | 215 x 150 mm |
€400.00
Description
Beautiful view engraved by Giovan Battista Falda based on a drawing by Cornelius Meyer.
Plate included in Meyer's Arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigazione del suo Tevere, printed in Rome in 1683.
Cornelius Meyer (1640-1700). An architect, engineer, and astronomer, he was a prominent figure in the Europe of his time and worked on numerous water projects, including the reorganization of the Tiber. A polymath with a wide range of interests, he wrote on a wide variety of subjects: alongside dissertations and ingenious engineering solutions, he includes essays on eclipses and images of the dragon whose bones the author had recovered from the Pontine Marshes and displayed at his home. Meyer, already known to the Roman Curia for having secured a commission for a project on the navigability of the Tiber, published his studies in the work Arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigazione del suo Tevere, published in Rome by the Reverenda Camera Apostolica, 1683.
Etching, with descriptive typographical text, in good condition.
Cornelis Janszoon Meijer (Amsterdam, 14 gennaio 1629 – Roma, 23 agosto 1701)
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Cornelis Meyer was a Dutch architect and engineer who worked mainly in Rome and is best known for his innovations in hydraulics. There is little documentation of Meyer’s life in Amsterdam before he moved to Venice in 1674. Venice was a popular destination for Dutch engineers seeking employment, and it was there that Meyer first proposed hydraulic constructions as solutions to problems with the rivers and harbors. Some of these proposals were adopted, and Meyer eventually obtained the official title of engineer. However, before any of his engineering plans were realized, Meyer left Venice in 1675 and went to Rome, never returning to complete the projects that he had first proposed to the Venetian government.
In Rome, Pope Clement X put Meyer in charge of a major civic project that aimed to protect the Via Flaminia against the flooding of the Tiber river. Meyer replaced the architect Carlo Fontana as head engineer of the project because his plans were less expensive than those proposed by Fontana. Since the Via Flaminia was the main road leading into Rome from the north, through the Porta del Popolo, it was the route most used by pilgrims as they entered the city. Therefore, it was critical to protect the road from the periodic flooding of the nearby Tiber. Meyer constructed a passonata, a row of piles, in the Tiber, which deflected the river’s current away from the Via Flaminia. With this engineering feat, Meyer established himself among the architects and engineers working in Rome during the seventeenth century.
After the success of the passonata, Pope Clement X hired Meyer to engineer better navigation on the Tiber for the purpose of increased commerce. Meyer came up with revolutionary solutions to expedite travel along the Tiber and, with the help of artist Gaspar van Wittel, he published his ideas in a book entitled L’arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigatione del suo Tevere in 1683.
L’arte di restituire... was published in three parts and contained Meyer’s plans for the Tiber River, illustrated with etchings of his own as well as those of Giovanni Battista Falda, Gaspar van Wittel, Jacques Blondeau, Barend de Bailiu, Balthasar Denner, Gomarus Wouters, Johannes Collin, and Io. Bat. Honoratus. The book was both a record of Meyer’s engineering skills and feats as well as a form of visual self-promotion for an engineer seeking further commissions. In addition to its artistic quality and professional function, Meyer’s book indicated a new engineering and architectural milieu that Rome had entered by the end of the seventeenth century. A manuscript of Meyer's writing with van Wittel's drawing for Mayer is in the collection of the Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (34.K.16 (Cors. 1227).
During his lifetime, Meyer published several other books including Nuovi Ritrovimenti (1689) and L’arte di rendere i fiumi navigabili in varii modi, con alter nuove inventioni a varii altri secreti, divisa in tre parte (1689). However, it was with his designs in L’arte di restituire... that Meyer was able to insinuate himself into the artistic and scientific elite in Rome. Upon his death in 1701, he bequeathed his plans and projects in Rome to his son, Otto Meyer.
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Cornelis Janszoon Meijer (Amsterdam, 14 gennaio 1629 – Roma, 23 agosto 1701)
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Cornelis Meyer was a Dutch architect and engineer who worked mainly in Rome and is best known for his innovations in hydraulics. There is little documentation of Meyer’s life in Amsterdam before he moved to Venice in 1674. Venice was a popular destination for Dutch engineers seeking employment, and it was there that Meyer first proposed hydraulic constructions as solutions to problems with the rivers and harbors. Some of these proposals were adopted, and Meyer eventually obtained the official title of engineer. However, before any of his engineering plans were realized, Meyer left Venice in 1675 and went to Rome, never returning to complete the projects that he had first proposed to the Venetian government.
In Rome, Pope Clement X put Meyer in charge of a major civic project that aimed to protect the Via Flaminia against the flooding of the Tiber river. Meyer replaced the architect Carlo Fontana as head engineer of the project because his plans were less expensive than those proposed by Fontana. Since the Via Flaminia was the main road leading into Rome from the north, through the Porta del Popolo, it was the route most used by pilgrims as they entered the city. Therefore, it was critical to protect the road from the periodic flooding of the nearby Tiber. Meyer constructed a passonata, a row of piles, in the Tiber, which deflected the river’s current away from the Via Flaminia. With this engineering feat, Meyer established himself among the architects and engineers working in Rome during the seventeenth century.
After the success of the passonata, Pope Clement X hired Meyer to engineer better navigation on the Tiber for the purpose of increased commerce. Meyer came up with revolutionary solutions to expedite travel along the Tiber and, with the help of artist Gaspar van Wittel, he published his ideas in a book entitled L’arte di restituire a Roma la tralasciata navigatione del suo Tevere in 1683.
L’arte di restituire... was published in three parts and contained Meyer’s plans for the Tiber River, illustrated with etchings of his own as well as those of Giovanni Battista Falda, Gaspar van Wittel, Jacques Blondeau, Barend de Bailiu, Balthasar Denner, Gomarus Wouters, Johannes Collin, and Io. Bat. Honoratus. The book was both a record of Meyer’s engineering skills and feats as well as a form of visual self-promotion for an engineer seeking further commissions. In addition to its artistic quality and professional function, Meyer’s book indicated a new engineering and architectural milieu that Rome had entered by the end of the seventeenth century. A manuscript of Meyer's writing with van Wittel's drawing for Mayer is in the collection of the Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (34.K.16 (Cors. 1227).
During his lifetime, Meyer published several other books including Nuovi Ritrovimenti (1689) and L’arte di rendere i fiumi navigabili in varii modi, con alter nuove inventioni a varii altri secreti, divisa in tre parte (1689). However, it was with his designs in L’arte di restituire... that Meyer was able to insinuate himself into the artistic and scientific elite in Rome. Upon his death in 1701, he bequeathed his plans and projects in Rome to his son, Otto Meyer.
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