De architectura
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De architectura is a treatise on architecture written by the Roman architect and military engineer Vitruvius and dedicated to his patron, the emperor Caesar Augustus, as a guide for building projects.
A 1521 Italian language edition of De architectura, translated and illustrated by Cesare Cesariano
Manuscript of Vitruvius; parchment dating from about 1390
Greek house plan after Vitruvius
The Pont du Gard Roman aqueduct in southern France
Vitruvius
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Vitruvius was a Roman architect and engineer during the 1st century BC, known for his multi-volume work titled De architectura. As the only treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity, it has b
Engraving by Jacopo Bernardi after Vincenzo Raggio, 1823 or 1847
"Vitruvian Man", illustration in the edition of De architectura by Vitruvius; illustrated edition by Cesare Cesariano (1521).
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, an illustration of the human body inscribed in the circle and the square derived from a passage about geometry and human proportions in Vitruvius' writings