Grand escalier du chateau de versailles – Charles Le Brun I chose those two pages because of their extremely detailed drawings, also involving architectural elements, such as the cornice in the first drawing and the ionic columns in the second drawing. Regarding the bright colors, the gold decoration on the cover and also the condition…
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I chose these pages because they’re very interesting and particulary exact drawn. I like the exactness of the illustrations, which stand in a contrast with the old, yellow and wavy texture of the paper.
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I liked the drawing on the main Page and I chose page 128 as an interesting sample to express how the author introduced every new letter in the “Vocabularium”. The book was bigger than I expected, and I thought it would have something on the cover Page, but it didn’t.
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Pietro Accolti 1625 I chose these two pages, because it explains and shows, how perspective works and how to draw or sketch it. This picture shows two things: first the book is printed as a woodcut and secondly it shows some watermarks, which means, that the book was used frequently back in the days and…
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The book cover has a very simple single coloured design.
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Les plans et les descriptions de deux des plus belles maisons de campagne de Pline le consul – Félibien des Avaux, Jean-François; Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius
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I chose these two pages because I really liked how detailed both drawings are, especially on the page where we can observe a chapel each detail of the building is beautifully drawn and lives up to reality.
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Reasoning first page: The eye-catching letter and the big writing differ from the rest of the book. Reasoning second page: The structured page with the clean writing is very pleasing to the eye and stands in contrary to the cursive writing on the other pages. Dilara Su Baysal | 21-928-767 | Atelier Blaas