To begin my research with the search engine Alice, I defined „Alberti and Vitruvius Library“ as the brain. The first topic of conversation is plain and simple: architecture. As the search term I used „ancient architecture“ because Vitruvius focuses on the architecture of those who came before. This combination led me to the first comparison:…
Author: Jeffrey Barman
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Vitruvius Teutsch is the first German translation of the Latin book Vitruvius, written by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio himself. However, there were many annotations made in the German translation, thus the author of Vitruvius Teutsch may be Walther Ryff, but Vitruvius is without a doubt more than a „co-author“. In the year 1543, which is the…
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I chose these two specific pages, because they show the origins of the different column types. Only through this knowledge, it becomes apparent, how much thought went into their design.