Vignola (Giacomo Barozzi da) - Regles de Cinq Ordres d'Archictecture de Vignolle.

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Regles de Cinq Ordres d'Archictecture de Vignolle. Reueuee augmentees et reduites de grand en petit par le Muet.12mo, [4], 101 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.,  A Paris : Chez Pierre Mariette, ruë St. Iacques, à l'Esperance. Auec priuilege du Roy 1632. [1631].

Two title pages, both engraved, the first dated 1632 the second 1631. Imprint is the same on both.
Wholly engraved. First two leaves unnumbered. The rest of the book paginated, with pp. 1-82 having text (within a border) on the verso of each opening and an image on the recto. From p. 83 onwards the verso is blank, with only images on the rectos. 50 full-page plates, the last loose and a little trimmed at the edges. Bound in grey paper wrappers. A trifle chipped and soiled at the edges. A very good copy.

Giacomo (or Jacopo) Barozzi (or Barocchio) da Vignola (often simply called Vignola) (1 October 1507 - 7 July 1573) was one of the great Italian architects of 16th century Mannerism. His two great masterpieces are the Villa Farnese at Caprarola and the Jesuits' Church of the Gesù in Rome. The three architects who spread the Italian Renaissance style throughout Western Europe are Vignola, Serlio and Palladio. His two published books helped formulate the canon of classical architectural style. The earliest, Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura ["Canon of the five orders of architecture"] (first published in 1562, probably in Rome), presented Vignola's practical system for constructing columns in the five classical orders (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite) utilising proportions which Vignola derived from his own measurements of classical Roman monuments. The clarity and ease of use of Vignola's treatise caused it to become in succeeding centuries the most published book in architectural history. Vignola's second treatise, the posthumously-published Due regole della prospettiva pratica ["Two rules of practical perspective"] (Bologna 1583), favours one-point perspective rather than two-point methods such as the bifocal construction. Vignola presented, without theoretical obscurities, practical applications which could be understood by a prospective patron.

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