The visual power of military architecture in the Baroque age

Abstract

An International Symposium organised by the International Institute for Baroque Studies, University of Malta 9th October 2015 National Library, Valletta. This symposium on a relatively unexplored aspect of military architecture was the first of several public activities organized by the International Institute for Baroque Studies at the University of Malta during the academic year 2015/16. It set out to explore and discuss the manner in which architects, designers, and military planners of works of military architecture during the Baroque age, sought to bring together architecture, engineering, technology, urbanism, and art in their defensive works in an attempt to endow them with aesthetic appeal.