Architecture and Memory

The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro

Robert Kirkbride

 

In addition to the scopetta, grenade and bridle, devices in the dado at Urbino and Gubbio include an ostrich, an ermine, olive and oak trees, and a crane.

Source: Photo by author with permission of La Soprintendenza per i beni storici e artistici delle Marche. This photograph was previously published in Chora Four: Intervals in the Philosophy of Architecture, eds. A. Pérez-Gómez and S. Parcells (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2004).

In addition to the scopetta, grenade and bridle, devices in the dado at Urbino and Gubbio include an ostrich, an ermine, olive and oak trees, and a crane.