Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, Roman architect and engineer of the first century BC, author of De architectura, the only complete treatise on architecture to survive from antiquity. His demand that building satisfy firmitas, utilitas and venustas, firmness, commodity and delight, and his account of the orders, governed European architectural thought from the Renaissance onward.
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Source The Ten Books on ArchitectureMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan
Alberti explicitly modelled De re aedificatoria on Vitruvius's De architectura, the only architectural treatise to survive from antiquity.
Vitruvius is the earliest surviving source to codify the orders' proportional rules, in De architectura Book IV.
Source The Ten Books on ArchitectureMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan
Source The Ten Books on ArchitectureMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan
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Palladio was influenced by Roman and Greek architecture, primarily Vitruvius, through his patron Trissino's study of De architectura.
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Alberti's De re aedificatoria was modeled on and inspired by Vitruvius's De architectura.
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Additional Source Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
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Source The Ten Books on ArchitectureMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan
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2. The Ten Books on Architecture
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, Harvard University Press, 1914- Associated With: De architectura Written, Book I, preface, dedication to Augustus
- Associated With: The Classical Orders, Book IV, on the orders
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Wikipedia: Leon Battista Alberti
Vitruvius (Wikipedia)
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Vitruvius ( vi-TROO-vee-əs; Latin: [wɪˈtruːwi.ʊs]; c.
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