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In his discussion, Alberti includes a wide variety of literary sources, including Plato and Aristotle, presenting a concise version of the sociology of architecture. De re aedificatoria is subdivided into ten books and includes: Book One: Lineaments; Book Two: Materials; Book Three: Construction; Book Four: Public Works; Book Five: Works of ...
I quattro libri dell'architettura (The Four Books of Architecture) is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580), written in Italian. It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with woodcuts after the author's own drawings. It has been reprinted and translated many times, often in single ...
The Five Orders of Architecture (Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura) is a book on classical architecture by Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola from 1562, and is considered "one of the most successful architectural textbooks ever written", [1] despite having no text apart from the notes and the introduction. [2]
Architectural theory is the act of thinking, discussing, and writing about architecture. Architectural theory is taught in all architecture schools and is practiced by the world's leading architects. Some forms that architecture theory takes are the lecture or dialogue, the treatise or book, and the paper project or competition entry ...
Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.
Reissued as: Art in Renaissance Italy, 1350-1500 (2000) Evelyn Welch: 1997 Twentieth Century Design: Jonathan M. Woodham 1997 African-American Art: Sharon F. Patton: 1998 Architecture in the United States: Dell Upton: 1998 Sculpture Since 1945: Andrew Causey 1998 Native North American Art: Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips: 1998 ...
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I Tatti volumes in a London bookshop. The I Tatti Everyday Renaissance Library is a book series published by the Tatti University Press, which aims to present important works of Italian Renaissance Latin Literature to a modern audience by printing the original Latin text on each left-hand leaf (verso), and an English translation on the facing page (recto).