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Task II – Del palazzo de’ Cesari – Francesco Bianchini 

Del palazzo de’ Cesari – F. Bianchini  The author of the book is Francesco Bianchini. He was born on 13th December 1662 and died on 2nd March 1729. He was an Italian philosopher and scientist. The book “Del palazzo de’ Cesari” is a posthumous work, what means that is appeared after his death. It was…

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Architectura de postium seu portalium ornatu vario is the full title of my friend the old book. Translated from latin this means as much as: the architecture of doors and portals and their various ornaments. The authors name was Wendling Dietterlin he lived from 1550-1599 around Strasbourg. He worked as a painter and construction theorist….

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To understand the context of the book it is helpful to first take a look at the author, Jean-François de Neufforge , his circumstances and the circumstances under which “Recueil elementaire d’architecture” was written. De Neufforge was born in the early 18th century in Belgium but spent most of his life in Paris. He worked…

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Jean-Baptiste Rondelet, Mémoire historique sur le Dôme du Panthéon Français Paris, 1797 The book has 118 pages and at the end are additional foldable plans. I choose two pictures of the foldable plans at the end. They remind me of a book for children I used to read, where you can play with the book by…

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The book has a pretty thick binding and is approximately 3cms thick. I was surprised how heavy it was. Alone from the smell you could tell it’s quite an old book. 

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In my opinion it’s very interesting, how the artist of this pictures managed to draw a cut threw the building while still drawing the outside from it. The detail of the drawings is also amazing.

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I chose this page because I found it fascinating how the foreword is combined with a drawing. This page looked interesting because of the architectural design of this object. The book was pretty heavy and but it was cleaner than i thought. But the book is almost 400 years old and you would see that…

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Es ist interessant wie genau die Volute abgemessen worden ist. Die genaue Beschreibung und Vermessung der Säule insbesondere des Kapitells ist sehr eindrücklich.