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THE FRENCH ANTECEDENTS OF S. LE PRETRE DE VAUBAN: THE TRANSITION FROM THE “TRACE ITALIENNE” TO THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF BASTIONED FORTIFICATION
(STEF92 Technology, 2017, Y. Revzina)
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Today the name of Sebastiene Le Prêtre de Vauban is considered to be some kind of equivalent to the bastioned fortification itself. Of course his impact to the European fortification of the late XVII – early XVIII centuries was great. Nevertheless his ideas and his famous “three systems of fortification” were the result of the evolution of ideas that took place in France during the second half of the XVI - the early XVII centuries. Among the most prominent antecedents of Vauban there were J. Errard De Bar-l...
ART & HUMANITIES: Section History of Art2017