VITRUVIUS

(Marcus Vitruvius Pollio)vĭtrooˈvēəs, fl. late 1st cent. b.c. and early 1st cent. a.d., Roman writer, engineer, and architect for the Emperor Augustus. In his one extant work, De architectura (c.40 b.c., tr. 1914), he discussed in 10 encyclopedic chapters aspects of Roman architecture, engineering, and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the only antique treatise on architecture to have survived, De architectura has been an invaluable source of information for scholars. The rediscovery of Vitruvius during the Renaissance greatly fueled the revival of classicism during that and subsequent periods. Numerous architectural treatises were based in part or inspired by Vitruvius, beginning with Leon Battista Alberti's De re aedificatoria (1485).

See M. H. Morgan, Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture (1914, repr. 1960).

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Vitruvius: The Ten Books on Architecture
Book by Morris Hicky Morgan; Dover Publications, 1960
Subjects: Architecture--Early Works To 1800
VITRUVIUS TEMPLE PLAN COMPARED, WITH ACTUAL EXAMPLES 115 VITRUVIUS RULE FOR DOORWAYS COMPARED WITH TWO EXAMPLE 119 TUSCAN TEMPLE ACCORDING TO VITRUVIUS 121 CIRCULAR TEMPLE, TIVOLI 123 MAISON CARREE, NIMES 123 PLAN OF TEMPLE, TIVOLI 123 PLAN...
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Ten Books on Architecture
Book by Leone Battista Alberti, James Leoni, Joseph Rykwert; Alec Tiranti, 1965
Subjects: Architecture--Early Works To 1800
157 Vitruvius, in describing the Doric order -- IV, 3 -- speaks of it as without a base; Albertis Doric base is identical with Vitruvius Attic base. Cf. Vitruvius III, 5 i-ii . Vitruvius, however, was true to Greek practice...
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Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study
Book by Frank Sear; Oxford University Press, 2005
Subjects: Archaeology--Rome, Rome--Antiquities--Catalogs, Theaters--Rome
...scaenarum frontes, appears three times in Vitruvius. ?5 ? The word columnatio, which is...scaenae frons wall. The term used by Vitruvius for the outer ones is hospitalia and...hospitalia is a neuter plural noun as used by Vitruvius and not an adj ective. Therefore the...
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A Biographical Dictionary of English Architects, 1660-1840
Book by H. M. Colvin; Harvard University Press, 1954
Subjects: Architects--Great Britain, Architecture--Great Britain--Dictionary
...the gateway to Piccadilly, 1718-19 Vitruvius Britannicus , iii , 22-5; R. P...for Sir W. Robinson, 1720-21 Vitruvius Britannicus , iii , 46 . HOUGHTON, NORFOLK...1722-30 Robert Hardy, Clerk of Works Vitruvius Britannicus , iii , 27-34 C. Life...
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Companion to Contemporary Architectural Thought
Book by Ben Farmer, Hentie Louw; Routledge, 1993
Subjects: Architectural Criticism--History--20th Century
thanks to Vitruvius, he remains a figure of myth and legend. Vitruvius relates the meeting between Dinocrates and his future...reserved for the exegesis of the interpreters of Vitruvius. Their diverse interpretations first reveal the...
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McEwen, Indra Kagis. Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture
Journal article by Carroll William Westfall; The Review of Metaphysics, Vol. 58, 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture (Book)--Book reviews
McEwen, Indra Kagis. Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture...William Westfall MCEWEN, Indra Kagis. Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture...extensively documented meditation addresses Vitruvius intention in producing the first treatise...
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Between Science and Drawings: Renaissance Architects on Vitruvius S Educational Ideas
Journal article by Christy Anderson; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 61, 2008
Subjects: Between Science and Drawings: Renaissance Architects on Vitruvius s Educational Ideas (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews, Books--Book reviews
...Drawings: Renaissance Architects on Vitruvius S Educational Ideas. by Christy Anderson...Drawings: Renaissance Architects on Vitruvius s Educational Ideas. SuomalaisenTiedeakatemian...study laid out in the ancient text by Vitruvius. This multipronged curriculum, famously...
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Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the Genesis of the Architectural Orders
Journal article by Ingrid D. Rowland; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 76, 1994
Subjects: Architecture, Colocci, Angelo, Jargon, Literary criticism, Sanzio, Raffaello
...predecessors with a good dose of skepticism. Vitruvius and Horace, for example, deplored the...engrossed, as will be seen, in the study of Vitruvius. However classical the formal ordines...Peters and as editor of the Aldine Vitruvius of 1511 still central to the architectural...
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Alexander the Great's Mountain
Journal article by Veronica Della Dora; The Geographical Review, Vol. 95, 2005
Subjects: Alexander the Great--History, Landscape changes--Environmental aspects, Landscape changes--Natural history, Mount Athos (Greece)--Environmental aspects, Mount Athos (Greece)--History
...century B.C. Roman architectural writer Vitruvius (2004, 2: 1-2), the peak of Athos...Dinocratic myth itself, as narrated by Vitruvius and appropriated by other Classical authors...characteristics that wild Athos lacked (Vitruvius 27-23 B.C. 2004, 2: 3). FIGURE...
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Durer's Melencolia I: Plato's Abandoned Search for the Beautiful
Journal article by Patrick Doorly; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 86, 2004
Subjects: Art history, Drawing, Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528), Plato, Visual artists
...order to disclose Platos themes. Plato, Vitruvius, and Pliny Platos Complete Works were...so I went ahead on my own and read Vitruvius, who describes the proportions of the...according to Vitruvian proportions. Vitruvius had made his brief statement on the proportions...
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Musical Acoustics in the Age of Vitruvius
Magazine article by Robin Maconie; Musical Times, Vol. 146, Spring 2005
Subjects: Acoustics, Architecture, Musicology, Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio)
Musical Acoustics in the Age of Vitruvius by Robin Maconie ACOUSTIC AND MUSICAL...written in the first century by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio summarise the precepts of town...accommodations in ancient Greece and Rome. Vitruvius inspired the classical revival in European...
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Vulcan's Masonry
Magazine article by Marie D. Jackson; Natural History, Vol. 116, April 2007
Subjects: Architecture, Atoms & subatomic particles, Building materials, Construction, Expansion & contraction, Field study, Masonry, Public buildings
...the Roman architect and engineer Marcus Vitruvius Pollio considered important. And as...late first century U.c., soon after Vitruvius completed a treatise titled De architectura...survive from classical antiquity. In it, Vitruvius recorded the empirical observations of...
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Home-Making
Magazine article by Peter Davey; The Architectural Review, Vol. 200, October 1996
Subjects: Architecture--Analysis, Dwellings--Design and construction
...beds for architectural development. Vitruvius thought that human development was started...dwelling-place was the next. Whether Vitruvius was right in his analysis of the beginnings...the development of civilisation that Vitruvius might have mentioned, but didnt, is...
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The Sonnet: Ruminations on Form, Sex, and History
Magazine article by Anthony Hecht; The Antioch Review, Vol. 55, Spring 1997
Subjects: Literature--Criticism and interpretation, Sonnets--Analysis
...earliest and greatest theoreticians, Vitruvius. Ive written about this at some length...will offer here only a brief summary. Vitruvius, the leading architect of Augustan Rome...proportionally related in the body of what Vitruvius called "a well-shaped man." He worked...
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Ghost Ships of Normandy
Magazine article by Dale Alexander; Sea Classics, Vol. 43, September 2010
...ferro-concrete (cement) freighter SS Vitruvius, built at Hookers Point, Florida...block ships. Named for Roman engineer Vitruvius Pollio who had helped perfect cement...docks in Baltimore and went aboard the SS Vitruvius. I couldnt help notice the ship was...
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How Palladio Took Columns Home
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 5, 2003
Subjects: Palladio, Andrea, Rybczynski, Witold
...and began to groom him to become an architect. Trissino introduced Andrea to the writing of Vitruvius, an ancient Roman architect. (Vitruvius "Ten Books of Architecture," a treatise outlining ideals of order and proportion, was the pattern...
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Doing as the Romans Did; Constructing a First Century Roman House with 21st Century Builders Was Not Easy. Alison Jones Talks to the Expert Who Leapt at the Chance to Do It for a TV Series
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), February 24, 2011
...ability," says Professor Dai Morgan Evans, the academic who, armed with De Architectura (On Architecture) by Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, provided the projects historical expertise. "Ruins can be a turn off, even for me, after a while. You can only...
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CATHEDRAL CENTENARY: Full of Style, but Modest; St Philip's Represents One of the Best Loved Buildings in Birmingham. but, as Arts Editor Terry Grimley Explains, It Is Also One of the Most Architecturally Important
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), March 5, 2005
...restraint. It was one of the few churches to be illustrated in Colen Campbells classic compendium of then cutting-edge design, Vitruvius Brittanicus, in 1711. The feature which most impresses architectural connoisseurs is the tower, with its surprising concave...
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Pick of the Day
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 15, 2011
...mere ruins are all that remain after 2,000 years. Now, with the help of a manual written in 25 BC by the Roman engineer Vitruvius, six builders are setting out to recreate a Roman villa in Shropshire - and, advised by archaeology professor Dai Morgan...
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Pick of the Day
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), January 16, 2011
...although they were built to last, mere ruins are all that remain after 2,000 years. Now, with the help of a manual written in 25 BC by the Roman engineer Vitruvius, six British builders are setting out to re-create a Roman villa.
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encyclopedia articles on: Vitruvius  - 15 results

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Vitruvius
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
VITRUVIUS (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio)vitroo ve s, fl. late 1st cent. b.c. and early 1st...aspects of Roman architecture, engineering, and city planning. Vitruvius also included a section on human proportions. Because it is the...
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Orders of Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...order , originally developed by the Greeks, the Roman writer Vitruvius attempted to formulate the proportionings of their parts...the 15th cent. Alberti revived an interest in the work of Vitruvius. At the same time, architects made drawings of Roman ruins...
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Classicism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Leone Battista Alberti wrote the first of several Renaissance treatises on architecture (1485), based on his reading of Vitruvius. The writers and artists of the baroque and rococo periods (c.1600 1750) that followed the Renaissance elaborated on...
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Palladio, Andrea
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...architecture. The measured drawings he made of these were published with compositions of his own and, based on the treatise of Vitruvius , a description of practical systems of design and proportioning. This famous work, I quattro libri dellarchitectura (1570...
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Orientation
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...to the sun has long been an important consideration in construction. Early commentators on the problem were Xenophon and Vitruvius. Examples of the concern for climatological orientation can be found in ancient Rome, where there were laws regarding the...
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