Part elevation of a Doric temple front showing a doorway with a frieze incorporating boucrania (bull's skull) motifs above and a sectional detail of mouldings to the left

SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. I Dieci libri dell' architettura di M. Vitruvio / tradutti et commentati da Monsignor Barbaro (Venice, 1556), p. 118 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 relates to drawings by Palladio numbered XI/7V and X1/7R in the Burlington-Devonshire Collection. Vitruvius's original treatise was written during the first century BC.