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The book “Parralèle de l’architecture antique avec la moderne”, 1766, is part of the ETH Rare Books collection and I was able to look at it in the archive of ETH. It was a little smaller than I thought it would be, as one can see on the picture where I hold it. It’s about…
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The Books “Studio d’architettura civile” by Fredinando Ruggieri includes 4 different Books. I was very surprised by how big those Books were. By seeing the Pages on the PDF i thought those Books must be smaller. It was impressiv to see those very percise drawings so big on each page. I chose those two pages,…
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#21-948-492 #60 Colen Campbell, Vitruvius Britannicus, vol. 1
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I chose the first and the last pages of the book, because the former one has an interesting coat of arms and the latter – a central alignment of the text with a decreasing length of a line, showing literally the end of the text. The book is quite small and thin and it is…
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Ich entschied mich für diese Seiten (S.45, S.56), da diese sehr schöne, detaillierte Zeichnungen enthalten: Bei der Seite 45 sieht man durchaus genauen Verzierungen der Decke einer Kirche. Bei der Seite 56 wird neben der Grundstruktur des Gebäude, auch wiederum die Deckenverzierungen ersichtlich. S.45 und S.56
Friends with an old book (Opera di Francesco Borromino – Sebastiano Giannini) Task 1
When first meeting the book I was surprised by its size and by how thin and fragile it actually was. It smelled of old leather, paper and the many years on its back. The ink has not faded over all those years which was quite impressive – as well as obviously the impressive drawings themselves…
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#20-712-022 # 10
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beautiful letters / interesting symbols