Irina Burau “La Perspective avec la raison des ombres et miroirs” Salomon de Caus The author of the book was Salomon de Caus, a French engineer and physicist. The title leaves hardly anything up for imagination. One knows exactly what to expect from a book with a title as theoretical and precise as this. His…
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Grand Escalier Du Chateau De Versailles -Charles le Brun The full title of the book: what is it revealing about the content of the book? Who is it speaking to? Grand Escalier DU Chateau DE Versailles DIT Escalier des Ambassadeurs ORDONNÉ ET PEINT Par Charles le Brun Ecuyer premier Peintre de Roy, CONSACRÉ A LA…
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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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The title of the book De la distribution des maisons de plaisance, vol., already tells us what topics the book deals with. It is written about luxury houses and shown with pictures. Accordingly, the book is addressed to architects who deal with luxury houses. Presumably, the houses are needed to entertain richer guests.Two tables of…
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“A book of architecture containing designs of buildings and ornaments” by James Gibbs As the title the books says, it is about designs and ornaments. The book starts with an introduction. After the introduction all the plates (images) are described. After more than hundreds description of all plates. The actual plates follow. It has images…
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Friends with an old book argument The book is called: “Mémoires sur les objets les plus importants de l’architecture”.It was written in 1769, and to put it in a historical context, it was written during the Renaissance, when the ancient writings of antiquity were rediscovered and architecture had a new lease of life. The author…
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Dell Architettura (from architecture/about architecture) The book was presentented as written by Mario Gioffredo di Napoli and not the name that was mentioned before. It is the first part of the book. The writer dedicated the Book to Giovanni Napoletani Studiosi d‘archittetura. But in the beginning he was flattering the King. In the book he is…
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In 1548 Walther Ryff was the first to publish a translation of the Latin book “Vitruvius”. With pictures and comments Walther Ryff supplements the ancient text of the Roman architect Vitruvius. Ryff’s work became one of the most important architectural theory books of the (German) Renaissance. By title “Vitruvius. Des allernamhafftigisten unnd hocherfarnesten römischen Architecti…
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The title of the book synopsis architecturae civil eclecticae reveals that the book is about architecture and the parts of civil engineering. The first view pages of the book are all blank. After the four blank pages, there is a page which informs you of the basic knowledge of the book. This first written page,…