After working for a while with the old book “Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la moderne” by the author Charles-Antonie Jombert and Roland Fréart, I had an idea of finding a similar book with the engines Xenotheka and Alice for my task. First of all, I searched the English name of the book “Parallel of…
Author: Xiaomin Tian
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The title of the book is “Parallèle de l’architecture antique avec la moderne” which is in French, is called “Parallel of ancient architecture with modern” translated into English. As it is shown in the title, it talks about ancient architecture but focused on the five orders and their adaptions to different ancient buildings. The book…
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Xiaomin Tian: This page caught my eyes at first glance, this complicated drawing and design belong to my favorite type of collum, the Corinthian. I think the cornice fits with the rest of the collum in a perfect way. This picture compares two cornices/columns with very similar designs and structures. It is very interesting for…