'Freedom I do reveal to you': scale, microarchitecture, and the rise of the turriform civic monument fourteenth-century Northern Europe

• Autores: Achim Timmermann
• Localización: Art history: journal of the Association of Art Historians, ISSN 0141-6790, Vol. 38, Nº. 2, 2015 (Ejemplar dedicado a: To Scale / coord. por Joan Kee, Emanuele Lugli), págs. 324-345
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This essay explores the history of the construction of urban monuments that celebrated and gave a voice to the inexorable rise of Germany's Imperial Free Cities and Hanse towns during the later thrirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Potent, eloquent, and self-aware, these tower-shaped embodiments of new civic elites and identities took on what might be called an 'ideal scale', which made them large enough to serve as urban landmarks, but small enough to be unencumbered by the exigencies of structural mechanics. This contribution details their metamorphosis from their late thirteenth-century inception as royal memorials to their later adaptation as grand civic furnishings -fountains, boundary markers, and micro-architectural memorials.