THE RIBLESS LIERNE VAULT AT THE GATES OF QUART IN VALENCIA

THE RIBLESS LIERNE VAULT AT THE GATES OF QUART IN VALENCIA

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The central part of the Portal de Quart, one of two surviving gates of the Mediaeval city walls of Valencia, includes a skew ribbed vault, placed over the central tribune, that eschews, for the first time in Hispanic Gothic, the usual solutions based on ribs and jeff rosenstock buffalo severies, using instead only whole ashlars.Such choice poses a number of new flex 4 heartworm test geometric problems connected with the design and execution of the vault, which are closer to Renaissance stereotomy than Gothic stonecutting.All this makes the vault a member of outstanding importance for Iberian Construction History.

In our paper we present a precise photogrammetrical survey of this vault and, building on it, a study of its geometrical form and construction.