I quattro libri dell'architettura is a treatise on architecture by the architect Andrea Palladio, written in Italian. It was first published in four volumes in 1570 in Venice, illustrated with woodcut
Front page of I quattro libri dell'architettura
Chap. VII. Of the Temple of Mars the Avenger, I quattro libri dell'architettura, 1570. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress.
Chap. XXIII. Of the Temple of Vesta, I quattro libri dell'architettura, 1570. From the Rosenwald Collection, Library of Congress.
Villa Pisani (Bagnolo) in I Quattro Libri dell'Architettura
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.
I quattro libri dell'architettura
…Palladian villas of the Veneto De architectura (10 books on architecture) Palladio, Andrea (1965) [1570]. The Four Books of Architecture. intro. by Adolf K. Placzek. New York: Dover Publications. ISBN 0-486-21308-0…
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