A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter
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Title: A parallel of the ancient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders, viz. Palladio and Scamozzi, Serlio and Vignola, D. Barbaro and Cataneo, L. B. Alberti and Viola, Bullant and De Lorme, compared with one another. The three Greek orders, Dorick, Ionick, and Corinthian, comprise the first part of this treatise. And the two Latin, Tuscan and Composita, the latter
Other titles: Parallele de l'architecture
Classmark: Large Architecture B-0 FRE
Creator(s): Fréart, Roland sieur de Chambray (1606-1676)
Additional creator(s): Alberti, Leon Battista (1404-1472) (Other); Evelyn, John (1620-1706) (Other); Wotton, Sir Henry (1568-1639) (Other)
Publisher: Printed by T. W. for D. Browne, J. Walthoe, B. and S. Tooke, D. Midwinter, W. Mears, and F. Clay
Publication city: London
Date(s): 1723
Language: English
Size and medium: 22 unnumbered pages, [i]-xxxviii, 115 pages, 6 unnumbered pages, 74 pages
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/183881
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008129619705181
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Title in red and black; title-vignette; head-and tail-pieces; initials.
Engraved frontispiece reads: A parallel of architecture both ancient & moderne, by Roland Freart, sr de Chambray.
"An account of architects and architecture" has special t.-p. and separate paging.
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