New PDF release: Vitruvius Britannicus: The Classic of Eighteenth-Century

By Colen Campbell

ISBN-10: 0486447995

ISBN-13: 9780486447995

A consortium of British architects and their consumers rebelled opposed to the early eighteenth century's Baroque excesses and became in its place towards the Renaissance works of Andrea Palladio for thought. those Neo-Palladians guided the process British structure towards classical rules, and the Vitruvius Britannicus (British Vitruvius) displays their imaginative and prescient. a luxurious selection of fabulous copperplate engravings, it depicts nice English state homes and public buildings.
Published among 1715 and 1725 in a three-folio set, the Vitruvius Britannicus records in meticulous aspect some of the constructions from the former centuries. Its three hundred illustrations contain facades, flooring plans, external elevations, and point of view perspectives. Featured structures comprise these designed by means of Inigo Jones, the seventeenth-century architect who brought Palladianism to England; the paintings of Sir John Vanbrugh, whose cutting edge Classical-Revival structure retained a Baroque aptitude; and modern designs, together with these of the writer, Scottish architect Colen Campbell.
The acclaim for this quantity fostered the improvement of the Neo-Palladian circulation, and Vitruvius Britannicus maintains to persuade architects and architects. good-looking and modestly priced, this new version is a necessary supplement to any layout library.

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