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Enea Arnaldi – “Delle Basiliche Antiche” I found this plan of some sort of basilica very interesting, in particular how orderly and proportional all the architectural elements line up. Furthermore, this page also caught my attention as different proportions are listed for various elements. The book overall was about the size of an A4 sheet,…
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I chose the two pages above because I find these drawing incredible, especially considering the time the book was written (1612).
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Giovanni Battista Falda – “Le fontane di Roma nelle piazze, e luoghi publici della città” (Roma, 1684) I chose these two pages (p.16 & p.20) because of the incredible beautiful design of the fountains. Furthermore, it is extremely interesting to look at the people in the drawings, because of the way they are dressing and…
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I chose these two pages because it shows how precisely the Romans worked with architectural features in columns in this case. In addition, an example of how the expression of the columns works and it seems to be powerful. From the outside, the book doesn’t look special, because the outside is only one color. You…
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I chose the pages 215 and 216 because they belong to the same building but are shown off differently. In the first weeks we were told that the ground view and the profile are the images that tell us most information about a building, so this double-page simply stood out to me. The original copy…
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1. -> Interesting images (very detailed) 2. -> “Temples anciens et modernes” by Louis Avril is an average sized book containing around 350 pages. From the outside the it doesn’t really stick out in any way but it has an interesting pattern on the front page that also continues on the side of all the…
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Titel: Descripción del Real Monasterio de San Lorenzo del Escorial : su magnífico templo, panteo, y palacio…Verantwortung: por Andrés XiménezPublikation: Madrid : Ed. Patrimonio nacionalAusgabe/Datum: 1984Format: 452 p.Sprache: Spanisch I chose these to pages because I found the way one chapter continues to another in a very nice decorative way. The book is about 30cm…
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Title: Li cinque ordini dell’architettura civile di Michel Sanmicheli rilevati dalle sue fabriche / e descritti e publicati con quelli di Vitruvio, Alberti, Palladio, Scamozzi, Serlio, e Vignola Autor: Alessandro Pompei Publication date: 1735 Language: Italian Pages: 112 Tavole (drawings): 37 The first page I chose shows drawings (maybe copperplate engravings) of several friezes (or…