For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples ...
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For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius' style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowland's new translation and Howe's critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ingrid D. Rowland is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Thomas Noble Howe is a professor in the Department of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.
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Near new condition, covers bright, text clean and binding tight in a near new dust jacket (lightly sun faded spine) which is now in a clear protective mylar sleeve. Size: 8.75x11.25 inches, 333pp., with 110 line drawings.
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Near Fine Plus in Near Fine Plus jacket. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. Cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., small owner name, date, place to front free endpaper. one or two spots of minute wear. clean. no text or exterior markings. no bumps, clips, chips. tight binding. a very nice copy.; translation by ingrid rowland. commentary and illustrations by thomas noble howe. added commentary by ingrid rowland and michael dewar., xvi-333pp., b/w illustrations throughout. translation with annotations of the earliest surviving texts on architecture, written during the first century b.c. in rome.