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Back to topCanon of the Five Orders of Architecture (Dover Architecture) (Paperback)
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Description
One of history's most published architectural treatises, this Renaissance volume identifies the five orders - Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Composite - and illustrates them in full-page elevational detail.
About the Author
Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-73) ranks among Italy's great architects in the 16th-century style known as Mannerism. Along with Palladio and Serlio, he was instrumental in spreading the Renaissance style throughout Europe.