The Ten Books on Architecture: De architectura (Ancient & Classical Architecture) - Softcover

Pollio, Vitruvius

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1727214986 ISBN 13: 9781727214987

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2018

Synopsis

The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio. De architectura (On architecture, published as Ten Books on Architecture) is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has been regarded since the Renaissance as the first book on architectural theory, as well as a major source on the canon of classical architecture. While your divine intelligence and will, Imperator Caesar, were engaged in acquiring the right to command the world, and while your fellow citizens, when all their enemies had been laid low by your invincible valour, were glorying in your triumph and victory,—while all foreign nations were in subjection awaiting your beck and call, and the Roman people and senate, released from their alarm, were beginning to be guided by your most noble conceptions and policies, I hardly dared, in view of your serious employments, to publish my writings and long considered ideas on architecture, for fear of subjecting myself to your displeasure by an unseasonable interruption.

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• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1727214986
• ISBN 13: 9781727214987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212
• Illustrator: Warren Herbert Langford, Robinson Nelson