Book of Architecture
Subtitle: Containing the General Principles of the Art and the Plans, Elevations, and Sections of Some of the Edifices Built in France and ... Classicism) (Reinterpreting Classicism)
Contributors: Caroline Van Eck (Editor); David Britt (Translator)
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Published: March 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 106
ISBN-13: 9781840146875
Subjects: Other prose: 16th to 18th centuries; Theory of architecture; Theory of art; Early works to 1800; Architecture; General; Philosophy
First sentence: The book that I now offer to the public contains descriptions of these buildings; to which I add reflections on the general principles of architecture, and on what is called good taste in art; without entering into detail on the various branches of knowledge necessary for an architect, or on those arts that enter into the construction of buildings, on which Vitruvius, Palladio, Scamozzi and other modern architects, both Italian and French, have written, and which they have extracted from the ruins of Greek and Roman edifices, some of which were still extant in their day, and of which some precious remnants are still left to us.