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Firmness, commodity, and delight (Latin: firmitas, utilitas et venustas) are the three aspects of good architecture declared by the Roman architect Vitruvius in his book "De architectura" ("On architecture", 1st century BC) and are also known as Vitruvian virtues, Vitruvian Triad.
Vitruvius (/ v ɪ ˈ t r uː v i ə s / vi-TROO-vee-əs; Latin: [wɪˈtruːwi.ʊs]; c. 80 –70 BC – after c. 15 BC) was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura. [1]
Among his illustrations is an attempt at rendering Vitruvius' precepts on the ideally proportioned man, successfully rendered by Leonardo, but attempted by many 15th century theorists Cesariano's illustrations, though not as influential as Sebastiano Serlio 's, had some influence in the picturesque and classicizing vocabulary of the Northern ...
A 1521 Italian language edition of De architectura, translated and illustrated by Cesare Cesariano Manuscript of Vitruvius; parchment dating from about 1390. De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus ...
An illustration of the primitive hut by Charles Dominique Eisen was the frontispiece for the second edition of Laugier's Essay on Architecture (1755). The frontispiece was arguably one of the most famous images in the history of architecture; it helped to make the essay more accessible and consequently it was more widely received by the public.
Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) shows the correlations of ideal human body proportions with geometry described by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in his De Architectura. "In his explicit turn back to an ancient model in search of knowledge and wisdom, Leonardo follows early humanist practice.
The Vitruvian Man developed by Leonardo da Vinci based on the description of Vitruvius' ideal ratio of the human body. Commemorative coin illustrating Le Corbusier's Modulor Church of Sant'Alessandro, Lucca, Italy: proportions of first construction phase of the façade ad triangulum and today's façade ad quadratum.
A Vitruvian Man prototype by Giacomo Andrea, 1480s. Luca Pacioli wrote that Giacomo Andrea was almost like a brother to Leonardo da Vinci. Giacomo Andrea, active by the 1480s, drew a prototypical Vitruvian Man which may have served as the basis for Leonardo's drawing, or have been conceived alongside it as a collaborative effort. [1]