The Architecture of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

In Ten Books

von

Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus

BuchKartoniert, Paperback

478 Seiten

Englisch

Cambridge University Presserschienen am02.07.2015

Active in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books. It remained the standard manual for architects into the medieval period. The topics which Vitruvius considered essential are diverse, including aspects of design as well as geometry and engineering. In the nineteenth century, the English architect and author Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863) won greater acclaim for the books he published than for the buildings he designed. His most celebrated achievement, The Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), is also reissued in this series. Gwilt's one-volume translation of Vitruvius's Latin text was first published in 1826. Supplanting previous versions, this work was long regarded as the standard edition in English. It contains a brief life of Vitruvius as well as an annotated list of previous editions since the fifteenth century. A number of detailed illustrative plates accompany the text.mehr

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KlappentextActive in the first century BCE, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio wrote his influential architectural treatise in ten books. It remained the standard manual for architects into the medieval period. The topics which Vitruvius considered essential are diverse, including aspects of design as well as geometry and engineering. In the nineteenth century, the English architect and author Joseph Gwilt (1784-1863) won greater acclaim for the books he published than for the buildings he designed. His most celebrated achievement, The Encyclopaedia of Architecture (1842), is also reissued in this series. Gwilt's one-volume translation of Vitruvius's Latin text was first published in 1826. Supplanting previous versions, this work was long regarded as the standard edition in English. It contains a brief life of Vitruvius as well as an annotated list of previous editions since the fifteenth century. A number of detailed illustrative plates accompany the text.

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ISBN/GTIN978-1-108-07052-2

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Cambridge University Press

Erscheinungsjahr2015

Erscheinungsdatum02.07.2015

Seiten478 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

MasseBreite 178 mm, Höhe 254 mm, Dicke 26 mm

Gewicht891 g

Artikel-Nr.30662919

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GenreKunst/Architektur

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Dedication; List of subscribers; Preface; Life of Vitruvius; List of the several editions and versions of Vitruvius; List of the chapters contained in the work; Description of the head-pieces; The architecture of Vitruvius, Books I-X; Plates, and explanations of them; Index.mehr