En los inicios de la experimentación de la albañilería moderna: Las escaleras de yeso en la arquitectura valenciana de los siglos XIV al XVI

Abstract

During Modern Age masonry developed the application of tile vault and plaster to create complex shapes by building groin, cloister, rampant or paraboloid vaults, ruled surfaces or revolution ones. They generated trusses, tabs, ribs, double sheets and many other inventions which are common nowadays, but they got a starting and a thinking mind. Many of these solutions, and especially the stairs that anticipated other parallels of stonework, are today a newly valued chapter in the History of Construction. A fact that can be attributed to the relevance achieved by prestigious architects like Antoni Gaudí or Rafael Guastavino. The interest of Valencian plaster stairs from the 14h-16th centuries, beyond the audacity of the Morella’s one, from the elegance of the Valencian’s Greater Silk Art, or the astonishing provision of that in the San Jerónimo of Cotalba monastery, starting point of the modern masonry. An episode that must be framed in the astonishing development of the tile vault and the structural cast in the 14th century in the valencian area and the later expanse through the Aragonese Crown and Hispanc empire. © 2017, Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos. All rights reserved.