Influenze degli architetti italiani nel sistema di fortificazioni in Venezuela tra XVII e XVIII secolo

The fundamental role played by Italian architects in military architecture since the Renaissance is a known circumstance. Personalities such as Francesco di Giorgio Martini, Baccio Pontelli, Giuliano and Antonio da Sangallo played a key role in the dissemination of increasingly effective and updated solutions in the field of fortifications These solutions were propagated in the Mediterranean regions and in the lands of the New World where the incidence of Italian works and artists whose extended in the eighteenth century with the revaluation of the classical models. This is the case of Venezuela, the subject of this paper, where both the irregular-plant type and the quadrangular plant type are used, as well as the pentagonal scheme.