Comment 1: Xenotheka_75: While searching for the book “A History of Architectural Theory” written by Hanno-Walter Kruft, that was one of the books that I found for the Xenotheka exercise, I came across your book. I found a lot of similarities with my book, “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e…
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When I started my search on Alice, I had already some word in mind, that I wanted to search with. Words such as, Public, private, decoration and geometry. All four of them can be read out of the title of my book “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e privati edifici:…
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The title already reveals a lot about the content of the book “Instituzione pratica dell’ architettura civile per la decorazione de’ pubblici, e privati edifice” followed by “preceduta da un articolo di Geometria in pratica ad uso delli disegnatori, et artefici / di Paolo Federico Bianchi” which translated in English means Practical institution of civil architecture for…
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I chose the first page from my book because I thought that the drawing depicted above the title of the chapter was quite nice and the decorative Initial looked very interesting. The second page I chose, because of the many geometrical shapes that are illustrated. 2. The book cover had very nice marbling and leather…