M. Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis.

Multiple artists/makers

1649

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Artwork Details

Title: M. Vitruvii Pollionis De architectura libri decem cum notis, castigationibus & observationibus Guilielmi Philandri integris; Danielis Barbari excerptis & Claudii Salmasii passim insertis.
Author: Marcus Pollio Vitruvius (Roman, active late 1st century BCE)
Author: Commentary by Guillaume Philander (French, 1505–1565)
Author: Commentary by Daniele Barbaro (Italian, 1514–1570)
Author: Sir Henry Wotton (British, 1568–1639)
Author: Giorgio Agricola (German, 1494–1555)
Author: Nikolaus Goldmann (German, Breslau 1611–1665 Leiden)
Author: Bernardino Baldi (Italian, 1553–1617)
Author: Leon Battista Alberti (Italian, Genoa 1404–1472 Rome)
Author: Pomponio Gauricus (Italian, ca. 1482–1528/30)
Author: Claude de Saumaise (French, 1588–1653)
Editor: Jan de Laet (Flemish, 1593–1645)
Publisher: Lodewyk Elzevier (Dutch, 1604–1670)
Published in: Amsterdam
Date: 1649
Medium: Printed book with woodcut illustrations and engraved title page
Dimensions: 12 11/16 x 8 1/8 x 2 1/16 in. (32.2 x 20.6 x 5.3 cm)
Box: 12 13/16 x 8 7/16 x 2 1/2 in. (32.6 x 21.5 x 6.3 cm)
Classifications: Books, Ornament & Architecture
Credit Line: Bequest of W. Gedney Beatty, 1941
Object Number: 41.100.243
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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