In the first century BC the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius dedicated his ten books on architecture to the emperor Augustus. As the only complete architectural treatise to survive antiquity, its rediscovery and printing in the Renaissance made it the foundation of European architectural theory for four hundred years.
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Alberti explicitly modelled De re aedificatoria on Vitruvius's De architectura, the only architectural treatise to survive from antiquity, while departing from it critically.
Source The Ten Books on ArchitectureMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan
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Source The Ten Books on ArchitectureMarcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan
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1. The Ten Books on Architecture
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, Harvard University Press, 1914Associated With: Vitruvius, Book I, preface, dedication to Augustus
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