Generally I used the Xenotheka library as Alice’s brain. As topic of the conversation I used the word “column” because that is the point it is all about in my book, V columnae from Hans Blum. First of all I used the word “illustration” because in the book V columnae there is a lot of…
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Xenotheka_11
Because of my book title, I instinctively typed in the term `columns` in the Xenotheca. The first book that was listed for me was an essay on architecture by Laugier. This was published in 1753, sometime after my book. In it, he discusses the `faults` of well-known aspects of Renaissance and post-Renaissance architectural practice. Among…
Argument_11
The book with the title `V columnae` was written by the German Hans Blum. He was an author from the sixteenth century and published this book in 1596. The book was printed in Zurich from Johan Wolffen. The Latin title translated into English means `five columns`. It already describes very well the content of the…
Argument_11
Hans Blum is a German author from the 16th century. He was a building theorist who studied Vitruvius, among other things. For this he also made a stay in Rome, where he was closest to this subject. After that he lived in Switzerland, where he produced his only known work of the 5 columns. I…
Greetings_11
I chose these two pages because it shows how precisely the Romans worked with architectural features in columns in this case. In addition, an example of how the expression of the columns works and it seems to be powerful. From the outside, the book doesn’t look special, because the outside is only one color. You…
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The book gets held together through two ribbons and a hard case, which protects the old pages inside. When a few pages Iie on one another, you can see a surprising blue colour appearing on the side of the book. I also like, how some pages can be folded out to view the whole image…
Greeting_11
I chose these two pages with sketches/ images of corinthian columns. Firstly, because I like the look of the corinthian columns the most and secondly, because I think that sometimes the best way to explain your thoughts is by an image example.