Música y arquitectura en el "De postrema Ezechielis prophetae visione" de J.B. Villalpando

Abstract

New interpretative guidelines and research proposals are suggested in this article concerning a subject hitherto mainly studied by art historians: the mathematical theory of proportion and proportionality, and its practical application, linking music and architecture of the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries. Here, these suggestions have been applied to one of the exemplary cases in Spanish renaissance-mannerist architectural treatises: the reconstruction of Solomon’s Temple presented by Juan Bautista Villalpando in his study De postrema Ezechielis prophetae visione. A unique concept in speculative music serves as an amalgam in the pan-symbolic framework of this treatise, converting it into one of the most valuable sources for scholars interested in the evolution of musical thinking in extra-musical ambits of Spanish Humanism.