MAREK MISTEWICZ

The article discusses five treatises written by great Italian Renaissance architects and inventors with a focus on bridge structures. Renaissance creators made use of the achievements of antiquity by restoring the canons of building of that period. At the same time Leonardo da Vinci or Fausto Veranzio produced bridge designs that were beyond the technical capabilities of their age. Centuries had to pass before those ideas were put into practice.

Keywords: modern period, architectural treaties, bridges