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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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20-944-021 182 Task 2 To start I translated the title “Perspectiva pictorum et architectorum” via the internet into English. “The perspective of painters and architects” sounds like a book aimed at beginners, which is giving an insight into drawing or painting perspective. Although the book doesn’t have an on one of the first pages there…

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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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The Book was surprisingly lightweight, and it had a really awful smell to it. But I loved it.

First Greetings: The architecture of Palladio

Diese Doppelseite befindet sich ungefähr in der Mitte des Buches. Ich habe sie gewählt, weil ich diese Abbildung als ein sehr gutes Beispiel finde, wie man ein Gebäude durch einem Grundriss und einer Frontalansicht verständlich und ästhetisch schön darstellen kann. Als ich dann das Buch und die Doppelseite in Echt gesehen habe, war ich fasziniert,…