PEDRO DE GUEVARA Y LA FORTIFICACIÓN DE TRANSICIÓN. EL PLANO PARA LA REFORMA DE LAS DEFENSAS DE VALENCIA DE 1544

Abstract

In 1544 Pedro de Guevara executed his plan to reform the defenses of Valencia. This is the first “reliable” cartographic representation of the city and constitutes a paradigmatic example of the so-called Transitional Fortification, but also involves the introduction of the new renaissance way of representing the city, in which the image acquires a strong will to objectivity, clearly different from the idealized graphical view of previous centuries.