ABSTRACT
DR. ADAMS, chairman of the Department of Art and Architecture at Lehigh University, received his doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University in 1977. He has published articles on 16th-century fortifications, on techniques of minting coins, and on the work of Renaissance estimators, and he is currently completing a study of cultural change in Pienza. He writes: "This article, though partially excerpted from my dissertation, 'Baldassarre Peruzzi: Architect to the Republic of Siena 1527-1535,' owes much to subsequent discussions. In particular I was aided by the opportunity to speak before the Metropolitan Seminar in the History of Technology in New York City and the chance to think about the Bruna River Dam in company with its members: Gustina Scaglia (Queens College) led me to the Munich Taccola, and Thomas Settle (Polytechnic Institute of New York) introduced me to the Florentine tradition of dams and weirs. Comments by Michael Mahoney (Princeton University), Bruce Chandler (City College, New York), George Saliba (Columbia University), and Pamela Long (Washington, D.C.) were also helpful. I am especially grateful for the friendship and generous help of my graduate advisers, Kathleen Weil-Garris Brandt and the late Wolfgang Lotz. Thanks are also due Sonia Fineschi (Archivio di Stato, Siena), Norman Smith (University of London), Douglas Lewis (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.), Maria A. Phillips (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Victoria Steeie (Elmer Belt Library, University of California, Los Angeles), Paul Myers (Lehigh University), Carlo Prezzolini (Abbadia San Salvatore), and Daniela Lamberini (University of Florence). Donald Martino, chief of the Project Review Section, and Leonard Baskin, hydraulic engineering consultant of the Division of Dam Safety, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Bureau of Dams and Waterway Management (Harrisburg, Pa.), helped me set Peruzzi's proposals into a modern context. During my research I was financially supported by the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., through a Chester Dale Fellowship, and by the Samuel H. Kress Foundation. The College of Arts and Science at Lehigh University and the dean, John Hunt, provided funds for the preparation of the manuscript."
