All arts and crafts have a history, and histories must start somewhere. Around the end of the Middle Ages scholars of ancient literature—first in some Italian cities— began ruminating on the idea that ...
Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from de Architectura are from the Belles Lettres editions, and all English translations are slightly modified versions of the Penguin translation. The entire ...
Most Roman multistoried structures required structural wooden beams for the construction of floors, ceilings, and roofs. In the seventh book of De Architectura, Vitruvius describes how floors framed ...
How the Italian Renaissance reinvented the power of princes by rediscovering Vitruvius and his architecture—and justified their right to rule. In Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture, Indra ...
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