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I chose these pages, because they both had some form of decoration.

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The villas of the ancients illustrated von Robert Castell I choose these two pages of the book, as the director refers directly to Vitruvius in his text about the Tuscum-Villa and the detailed drawing of the villa shows a great overview of the beautiful building. In this picture you can see that the size of…

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– Le théâtre de l’art de charpentier, enrichi de diverses figures, avecl’interprétation d’icelles – Jousse, Mathurin Griveau – 1650 Page 118 appealed to me because of its shapes and symmetry. The other page I found exciting because we just had that in class and I could compare it with the lecture. It felt like, as…

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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…