The full name of my book is „The Architecture of Palladio in Four Books“. When you read the title for the first time, you can imagine that it is about architecture, of course, but specified in someones style. So from a title like this one here I would expect theoretical explanations with a lot of…
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The titel of the book is de gli obelischi di Roma. With the “obelischi” is meant a pointed columne, which is, as it maybe can be guessed, located in Rom. Also, the whole book is written in Italian. In this case the title reveals the topic of the book. At the back is a contents…
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The work l’Art universel des fortifications is a french book written by Jean Du Breuil. Let us first take a closer look at the main title. It means : “The universal art of fortifications”. What does this term defines exactly ? First, “universal art” means a set of knowledge known by everyone, and that art…
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Colona Traiana eretta del Senato Colona Traiana eretta dal Senato or in English The Trajan’s Column erected by the Senate tells us alone with the title and the first page what the book is about. Trajan’s Column was erected by the Roman Senate and people in honor of the Emperor Trajan Augustus on the Roman…
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Li cinque ordini dell’architettura civile di Michel Sanmicheli rilevati dalle sue fabriche /e descritti e publiati con quelli di Vitruvio, Alberti, Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio e Vignola dal co. Alessandro Pompei is a writing/book that illustrates the different orders of Classical architecture: Ionic, Doric, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite. The book also talks specifically about 7 of…
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The book „the grecian orders of archietcture“ was written by Stephen Riou and published in 1768 in London. Etienne „Stephen“ Riou was an english architect who lived between 1720 and 1780, he studied at Geneva and published his first work ‘The elements of Fortification’ in 1746. When taking a first look at the book it…
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Reimund Scherer 17/12/2021 this book is probably about the antiquities built in ancient rome and how they were able to stand upright. the book probably focuses on the immense structures, this can be deduced from the size of the book. no, the book has no index, it is mostly illustrations by the author. The book…
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Ferdinando Ruggieri (1691-1741), ein Florentiner Architekt veröffentlichte 1722 das Studio di architettura civile, ein dreibändiges Werk, in dem er die berühmtesten Architekturmodelle architektonischen Detailstudien inhaltlich aufarbeitet. Das Buch setzt sich größenteils aus Zeichnungen zusammen und wird nur wenigen Stellen durch kleine Texte und Schriften ergänzt. .Ein solches Beispiel sind die einleitenden Texte zu Beginn jedes…