La escalera del Real Colegio Seminario de Corpus Christi de Valencia (1599-1601): hipótesis de traza

Abstract

The three-flight stairs with cantilevered sections show the most relevant contribution of the brilliant episode of the Valencian stereotomy of the Early Modern period. This paper presents the results of the graphic analysis carried out on its most representative example to determine its possible tracing strategy, the staircase of the Corpus Christi Seminary of Valencia. With the support of a telemetric survey using a 3D laser scanner, it has been verified the existence of an accomplished graphical method of design. The research has considered the operations recommended by stonecutting manuscripts and the constructive tradition of its predecessors, the "honour", staircases of the Mediterranean noble houses. This has allowed us to calibrate a strategy of analysis useful for the study of other analogous examples; to consider the information offered by the treatise writers and the validity of Late Medieval methods of shape control using directional curves.