Very good paperback copy; wrappers slightly edgeworn and dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; internally strong and clean. Provenance; bookplate of Capt Richard Campbell, OBE, RN. Series; Texts & documents. Physical description; 193 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm. Notes; Translation of: Ordonnance des cinq esp�ces de colonnes selon la m�thode des anciens. Translated by Indra Kagis McEwen. Introduction by Alberto P�rez-G�mez. Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index. Contents; Introduction / Alberto P�rez-G�mez Ordonnance and the Architectural Orders The Dimensions Regulating the Proportions of the Orders The General Proportions of the Three Main Parts of Entire Columns The Height of Entablatures The Length of Columns The Height of Entire Pedestals The Proportions of the Parts of Pedestals The Diminution and Enlargement of Columns The Projection of the Base of Columns The Projection of the Base and Cornice of Pedestals The Projection of the Cornice of Entablatures The Proportions of Capitals The Proportions of the Astragal and the Lip of the Column Shaft The Tuscan Order The Doric Order The Ionic Order The Corinthian Order The Composite Order Pilasters Abuses in the Alteration of Proportions Some Other Abuses Introduced into Modern Architecture. Subjects; Architecture Orders Early works to 1800. Columns Early works to 1800. 1 Kg.

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Title: Ordonnance for the five kinds of columns after the method of the ancients
Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
Publication Date: 1993
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0892362332
ISBN 13: 9780892362332
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: First Edition.
Weight: 1 kilogram

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Perrault argues that rules of architecture be determined by reason, not by ancient precedent.

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