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I chose these two pages because I really like the Illustrations of the columns (or Column-Heads) and also enjoy the translucent paper that’s making it feel like the pages are merging into each other. It’s kind of a strange mixture of these floating, detailed columns and the block-text with the linear, informal drawing on top….

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Architectura et perspectiva des fortifications & artifices – Jacques Perret 1602:This book shows a lot of detailed pictures and has always a text on the following side. The pages are mixed one side has a scatch and the other page has a text. Through the old pages you can see the color of the print…

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There are many beautiful illustrations in Martino Bassi’s “Dispareri in Materia d’Architettura, et Perspettiva”. I have chosen these two because they obviously refer to the title and are clearly related to each other. It would be interesting to find out exactly how.

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The 4 books by Ferdinando Ruggieri are filled with beautiful and very precise drawings of architectural elements, facades, bustes and whole buildings. The illustrations of human figures are some of the most striking to me. I also found the second drawing very unique, which shows the scaffolding, that was used during construction of the “Santa…

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Primary information about the book Title: Reigle générale d’architecture des cinq manières de colonnes : à scavoir, tuscane, dorique, ionique, corinth et composite : livre enrichy de plusieurs autres, à l’exemple de l’antique Attribution: veu, recorrigé & augmenté par Jean Bullant Publication: A Rouen : de l’Imprimerie de David Ferrand Edition/Date: 1619 (PDF) / 1647…

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Beautiful symbols, font and distribution of the text over these pages