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 Vitamin Packs the first time in Hispanic Gothic, the usual solutions based on ribs and severies, using instead only whole ashlars.Such choice poses a number of new 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 KIDS FISH OIL a precise photogrammetrical survey of this vault and, building on it, a study of its geometrical form and construction.