Category: Argument

Argument_79

The title of the book is “Del Palazzo de Cesari” and it is a opaera postuma which means that it was written after Cesari’s death. This book was not written by Giuseppe Cesari but by Francesco Bianchini who was an Italian philosopher and astronomer who was born in Verona in 1662. The book itself is…

Argument_34

The title of the book “Logometron architecturae militaris Freitagianae” , written by Andreas Alexander in 1665, is in Latin. This contrasts with the rest of the work, the subtitle and the original language, which are written in Old High German. From the title and the subtitle, which reads “Kunstmass der Freitagischen Bevestigung / Mit gnugsamer…

Argument_47

Colonna Traiana eretta dal Senato Pietro Santo Bartoli Rom 1673 “Colonna Traiana eretta dal Senato” means “Trajan’s Column erected by the Senate”. It is  published in 1673 and is all about the Trajana column that is built under Trajans rule and mostly about the battles in that time. Trajan was a roman emperor from 98…

Argument_13

The book Architectura by Gabriel Kramer is a very thin books that include only images and no index or text of some sort. The images (30 in total ca) are very beautiful hand-drawings with a lot of details on them.  The book is published in 1606 and is a Saulenbücher, (the title “Architectura”is very common…

Argument_106

As the book is written in Italian, and I sadly cannot understand the language, I was unable to fully comprehend the content of Enea Arnaldi’s “Delle Basiliche Antiche”. Thus the illustrations found in the book were the main elements that led to my own understanding of this particular book. According to the title of the…

Argument_111

The title “A Collection of designs for rural retreats, as villas” precisely reveals the general content of the Book. As the title suggests, it deals with rural retreats in the form of villas. The author’s tone sounds educational; however, he does use casual language which would suggest, that he is sharing his knowledge to those…

Argument_166

The book “Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città” by Giovanni Battista Falda consists mostly out of illustrations. In total the book has 224 pages but only on 110 pages is something written or displayed. There are 105 illustrations and the book has approximately a A5 format. Furthermore, the pages very…

110 Giovanni Falda

The book’s cover doesn’t contain anything noticeable and is plainly designed using only one single whitish colour. It doesn’t speak to anyone unless someone opens it up to see its’ content. Thus, it seems to be a mysterious book. It possesses chapters but doesn’t actually tell a story. When flipping through the book one may…

Argument 14

The title of Sebastiano Serlio’s book “Tutte le opere dell’architettura” translated to English means a collection of all of the books about architecture. It was written in the middle of the 16th century. The first thing that I saw, was the thickness of the book. But, of course, it must be thick since, like the…