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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 448
Utgivningsdatum: 1934-01-01
Förlag: Harvard University Press
Översättare: Frank Granger
Originalspråk: Latin
Medarbetare: Granger, Frank
Illustratör/Fotograf: plan illustrations
Illustrationer: 12 line illustrations, index
Volymtitel: Volume II
Dimensioner: 168 x 114 x 23 mm
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ISBN: 9780674993099

On Architecture, Volume II

Name: On Architecture, Volume II
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Author: Vitruvius
ISBN: 9780674993099

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The Renaissance man avant la lettre. Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BC, De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theaters, colonnades, baths, harbors). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colors). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.

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