Ad vitandam confusionem. Una aproximación analítica al tratado sobre perspectiva de Andrea Pozzo = Ad vitandam confusionem. An Analytical Approach to Andrea Pozzo’s Treatise on Perspective

Abstract

espanolEl tratado Perspectiva Pictorum Architectorum es uno de los principales meritos que han consagrado al hermano coadjutor Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709) como el mas renombrado artista de la Compania de Jesus. A pesar de haber servido a pintores, geometras y arquitectos del ultimo Barroco en cuatro continentes como fuente de formacion y repertorio visual, sigue siendo un texto citado mayormente de modo superficial. El presente examen de sus contenidos pretende analizar su organizacion y los diferentes propositos que fundamentaron la obra, esto es: ponderar la arquitectura de la Orden y del propio Pozzo; servir de eficaz manual de taller; y, entonces como hoy en dia, interesar como objeto de bibliofilia. EnglishAbstractThe treatise Perspective Pictorum Architectorum is one of the main reasons that have consecrated brother coadjutor Andrea Pozzo (1642-1709) as the most renowned artist of the Society of Jesus. Despite having served painters, geometricians and architects of four continents as a source of instruction and visual repertoire during the Late Baroque, it still remains –save honorable exceptions– as a superficially read text. Our examination of its contents analyzes how the plates were grouped to fulfill the different functions which the treatise was meant to accomplish, i.e.: praising Jesuit architecture and the one designed by Pozzo himself; being effective as a workshop manual; and, then as now, drawing attention to its character as an object of bibliophilia.