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Vitruvius

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Vitruvius (lived 1st century BC)

Roman architect. His ten-volume study of Roman architecture, De architectura, first printed in Rome in 1486, provided an important impetus for the Renaissance. Although often obscure, his writings have had a lasting influence on Western perceptions of classical architecture, mainly through the work of Leon Battista Alberti, and later Raphael Sanzio and Palladio.



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Mutilations, amputations, dislocation of the joints, "restorations"; this is the Greek, Roman, and barbarian work of professors according to Vitruvius and Vignole.
Notre-Dame de Paris by Hugo, Victor View in context
What a joyful sense of freedom we have when Vitruvius announces the old opinion of artists that no architect can build any house well who does not know something of anatomy.
Essays, Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo View in context
Balcom, a promising young architect, designs it on the back of his Vitruvius, with hard pencil and ruler, and the job is let out to Dobson & Sons, stonecutters.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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