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https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/40443| Title: | A new drawbridge for Fort Manoel’s baroque gateway |
| Authors: | Spiteri, Stephen C. |
| Keywords: | Fort Manoel (Gzira, Malta) -- History -- 18th century Fortification -- Malta -- History Drawbridges -- Malta -- History -- 18th century Knights of Malta -- History -- 18th century Vilhena, Antonio Manoel de, 1663-1736 Vauban, Sebastien Le Prestre de, 1633-1707 Order of St John -- History -- 18th century |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| Publisher: | University of Malta. International Institute for Baroque Studies |
| Citation: | Spiteri, S. C. (2011, June). A new drawbridge for Fort Manoel’s baroque gateway. Baroque Routes Newsletter, 8, 19–21. |
| Abstract: | Charles Francois de Mondion’s Baroque main gateway at Fort Manoel, undeniably one of the most beautiful and refined eighteenth-century gateway designs in fortifications built by the knights of the Order of St John has been given a replica working wooden drawbridge. Authentic wooden features are rare in Maltese Hospitaller fortifications and of all such elements it is perhaps the absences of drawbridges with their tavolature (platforms) and lifting mechanisms that really detracts from a full and proper appreciation of the manner in which fortifications were meant to function. The recent reconstruction of a wooden drawbridge at Fort Manoel, therefore, is a welcome exercise. For one thing, this has given back a proper legibility to the fort’s gateway by filling in the missing lacuna. |
| URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/40443 |
| Appears in Collections: | Baroque Routes Newsletter, No.08, 2011 |
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