A new treatise of architecture, according to Vitruvius wherein is discoursed of the five orders of columns, viz. : the Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : divided into seven chapters : vvhich declare their different proportions, measures, and proper names, according to the practice of the antient architects, both Greeks and Romans : as also of all their parts general and particular necessary in ... the beautifying of buildings in cities, as for necessary fortifications of them / designed by Julian Mauclerc ... ; whereunto are added the several measures and proportions of the famous architects, Scamozzi, Palladio, and Vignola : with some rules of perspective ; the whole represented in fifty large prints ...; so set forth in English by Robert Pricke.

Title

A new treatise of architecture, according to Vitruvius wherein is discoursed of the five orders of columns, viz. : the Tuscan, Dorick, Ionick, Corinthian, and Composite : divided into seven chapters : vvhich declare their different proportions, measures, and proper names, according to the practice of the antient architects, both Greeks and Romans : as also of all their parts general and particular necessary in ... the beautifying of buildings in cities, as for necessary fortifications of them / designed by Julian Mauclerc ... ; whereunto are added the several measures and proportions of the famous architects, Scamozzi, Palladio, and Vignola : with some rules of perspective ; the whole represented in fifty large prints ...; so set forth in English by Robert Pricke.

Author

Mauclerc, Julien.

Publication

London :: Printed by J. Darby, and are to be sold by Robert Pricke ...,

1669.

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Subject terms

Vignola, 1507-1573.

Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580.

Scamozzi, Vincenzo, 1552-1616.

Architecture -- Early works to 1800.

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Contents

• illustration
• title page
• To the Reader.
• A New Treatise of the TUSCAN ORDER. CHAP. I.
  • Here followeth the Antiquity of the Tuscan Column first in Order.
  • An especial Advertisement to Workmen that have only hand, practice and use of Rule and Compasses.
• A New Treatise of the DORICK ORDER. CHAP. II.
  • The Antiquity of the Dorick Column, being the second in Order.
  • An especial Advertisement for ordinary Workmen, who have only the Use of the Rule and Compass.
• A New Treatise of the IONICK ORDER, VVithout the PEDESTAL. CHAP. III.
• A New Treatise of the CORINTHIAN ORDER, VVithout the PEDESTAL. CHAP. V.
  • The Antiquity of the Corinthian Column, without its Pedestal.
  • An Advertisement for ordinary Workmen, having only the Hand-practice and Use of the Rule and Compasses.
• A New Treatise of the CORINTHIAN ORDER, VVith its PEDESTAL. CHAP. VI.
• A New Treatise of the COMPOSITE ORDER. CHAP. VII.
  • The Antiquity of the Composite Column.
  • An Advertisement for the Enter Columns, Arches or Portals, and of the divers Measures of Columns of Scamozzi, Palladio, and Vignola, which are at the end of this Book.