Leonardo as architect and urbanist


Centrally - planned
church


Corner of castle


Four-ramp stairway system


Navigable canals


Palace with porticoes


Stable for horses

click to zoom In its great dream to conjugate beauty and utility, Leonardo plans many buildings that would have improved the urban and social context of the city. In fact he introduces in his buildings innovations that rendered them more functional. First for Ludovico il Moro and for Francis I then, he studies and plans multiple fortified buildings and noble palaces, that answered to the more advanced defensive criteria. Moreover, like many other architects of the Renaissance, he studies buildings that correspond to those ideals of harmony, perfection and symmetry, like the many central planned religious buildings.

 

 
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