Buchdetails
Format
Kindle
Seiten
486
Sprache
Englisch
Veröffentlicht
Sep 24, 2009
Verlag
Penguin
ISBN-10
0141931957
ISBN-13
9780141931951
Beschreibung
In De architectura (c.40 BC), Vitruvius discusses in ten encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fuelled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods. Numerous architectural treatises were based in part or inspired by Vitruvius, beginning with Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (1485).
Genres
Wissenschaft & Technologie