Vignola revived : Wherein is shewn The True and most Elegant Proportions of the five orders, As laid down by that Great Master: Illustrated by Two Hundred and Twenty-Seven designs of Palaces and other Magnificent Buildings, Executed by himself in Italy and elsewhere; Neatly Engraved on fifty-six folio copper-plates, adapted Not only to the General Use of architecture, but herein Particular Subjects are treated with the greatest Accuracy, viz. The Five Orders; Columns, Symbolical, &c. &c. Doors, Windows, Niches, &c. Cornishes, French and Italian; Ballustrades, Mosaic Work, Mouldings, &c. Sections of Rooms, with Designs for Furniture; Ornamental Iron-Work for various Purposes; Temples, Grotto's, and Summer Retreats, for Parks, Gardens, &c. Plan, Elevations, and Sections of the Castle of St. Angelo at Rome; also of a Church, Pallaces, &c. With many other Particulars relative to the Art of Building.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vignola, 1507-1573.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800.

Architecture.

Architecture--Orders.

Physical Description:

4 pages,56 plates ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Robert Sayer, Map and Print-Seller, at the Golden Buck in Fleet-Street, MDCCLXI. [1761]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

A prospectus for this work was published in [1761?] describing the work as "Written in French by A. C. Dabiller, .. and render'd into Englsh, .. By Mr. John Price ..".

Price from imprint: Price Seven Shillings and Six-Pence.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T14871.

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