Vitruvius : ten books on architecture

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Vitruvius : ten books on architecture

translation by Ingrid D. Rowland ; commentary and illustrations by Thomas Noble Howe ; with additional commentary by Ingrid D. Rowland and Michael J. Dewar

Cambridge University Press, 1999

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De architectura

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Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. Expressing the range of Vitruvius' style, the translation, along with the critical commentary and illustrations, aims to shape a new image of the Vitruvius who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Table of Contents

  • Part I. Translator's Preface: List of manuscripts and printed editions
  • Illustrator's preface
  • Part II: The Translation: Book 1
  • Book 2
  • Book 3
  • Book 4
  • Book 5
  • Book 6
  • Book 7
  • Book 8
  • Book 9
  • Book 10
  • Part III. Commentary and Illustrations.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA43772097
  • ISBN
    • 0521553644
  • LCCN
    98011716
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Original Language Code
    lat
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xvi, 333 p.
  • Size
    29 cm
  • Classification
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