{"id":2471,"date":"2024-02-13T16:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T15:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/?page_id=2471"},"modified":"2024-02-14T11:04:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T10:04:48","slug":"fortress-architects","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/kulturerbe-festungsmonumente\/festungsarchitekten\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortress architects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Famous master builders of historic fortifications<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The fascination emanating from fortified monuments is automatically transferred to their creators, the engineer-architects. Thanks to their innovative approaches, some of them became real star architects of their time, whose construction methods (manners) were imitated throughout Europe and whose treatises became standard works in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Get to know some of the most colourful fortress builders with FORTE CULTURA.<\/p>\n\n\n

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S\u00e9bastien le Prestre de Vauban<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(1633 - 1707)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ing\u00e9nieur de France\", French general, master fortress builder of Louis XIV and Marshal of France<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Johann Maximilian von Welsch<\/a> <\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(1671 - 1745)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Architecte et ma\u00eetre d'\u0153uvre de la forteresse Directeur g\u00e9n\u00e9ral des travaux de l'Electorat de Mayence et de Bamberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Menno Baron van Coehoorn<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(1641 - 1704) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dutch artillery general,
fortress expert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michele Sanmicheli<\/strong><\/a><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(1484 - 1559)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italian fortress architect
Developer of the modern bastion fortress construction of the modern era<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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George Prosper de Verboom<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(1665 - 1744)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

General Engineer of the Royal Spanish Army<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Antonio da Sangallo the Younger<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

(1484 - 1546)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Italian architect and fortress builder of the Renaissance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ber\u00fchmte Baumeister des historischen Festungsbaus Die von Festungsmonumenten ausgehende Faszination \u00fcbertr\u00e4gt sich automatisch auch auf deren Sch\u00f6pfer, die Ingenieurarchitekten. Einige von ihnen avancierten dank ihrer innovativen Ans\u00e4tze zu regelrechten Stararchitekten […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2472,"parent":1262,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"editor_plus_copied_stylings":"{}","pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2471","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2471\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forte-cultura.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}