Elevation and part section of a Peripteros temple
Artist/Photographer | Palladio, Andrea (1508-1580) |
Image Date | 1556 |
View | Exterior |
Style | Classical |
Medium | Print |
Library Reference | EW E.d.384 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Temples ; Domes ; Vaulting ; Columns ; Orders of architecture ; Capitals ; Round buildings |
SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. I Dieci libri dell' architettura di M. Vitruvio / tradutti et commentati da Monsignor Barbaro (Venice, 1556), p. 127 NOTES: This 1556 edition of Daniele Barbaro's translation and commentary on Vitruvius's treatise entitled 'De Architectura' (Ten Books on Architecture) was prepared with the assistance of Andrea Palladio. The woodcut illustrations have been attributed to Andrea Palladio, Giuseppe Salviati and Giovanni Rusconi. This plate (which features a fold-out paper flap) relates to a drawing by Palladio numbered VIII/6 in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. Vitruvius's original treatise was written during the first century BC.
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