A parallel of the ancient architecture with modern. Account of architects and architecture, in an historical and etymological explanation of certain terms particularly affected by architects. Elements of architecture. Treatise of statues.

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Date de publication : 1664

Date d'édition : 1st

Éditeur : London

Langue de la traduction : English

Langue originale : French

Format : quarto

Volumes : 1 vol

Illustrations : lavishly illustrated

Sujet : Ancient Art

Type : Standard Enlarged

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Notes : 2nd.ed.1707, 'with large additions'; 3rd ed.1723 Printed for D. Brown, London, England. The title page of the 2nd edition reads: 'A Parallel of the Antient Architecture with the Modern, In a Collection of Ten Principal Authors who have Written upon the Five Orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L.B. Alberti and Viola, Bulland and De Lorme, Compared with one another. The three Greek Orders, Dorick, Ionick and Corinthian, comprise the First Part of this Treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita the Latter. Written in French by Roland Vreart, Sieur de Chambray; Made English for the benefit of Builders. To which is added an Account of Architects and Architecture, in an Historical and Etymological Explanation of certain Terms particularly affected by Architects. With Leon Baptista Alberti's Treatise of Stuatues. By John Evelyn Esq; Fellow of the Royal Society'. 11-2010 VC.