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On Architecture, Volume I: Books 1-5 by Vitruvius
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Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Simon Keay
Recommended for: Chris Ethier
Read on May 26, 2014
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After a rather understandably brown-tongued humble preface we are then advised that architects should know their history, music, art, philosophy, astronomy and medicine.
Book Two opens with Dinocratus who had quite the idea - make Mount Athos into a statue of a God. Looksee here:
Timotheus: a sculpture of Leda and the Swan in which the queen Leda of Sparta protected a swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums is said to be "after Timotheus".
The basis of a Björk dress:
The Mausoleum at the ancient city of Halicarnassus was the tomb of the king, Mausolus.
Basilica, Pompeii
Vitruvian Etruscan temple model. - Archaic Etruscan - In his book, On Architecture, Vitruvius set out the rules for designing Tuscan temples.
Vitruvian Harmonics
Aspendos
Tepidarium at Pompeii
After a rather understandably brown-tongued humble preface we are then advised that architects should know their history, music, art, philosophy, astronomy and medicine.
The Temples of Minerva, Mars and Hercules will be Doric, since the virile strengths of these Gods make daintiness entirely inappropriate to their Houses.
Book Two opens with Dinocratus who had quite the idea - make Mount Athos into a statue of a God. Looksee here:
Timotheus: a sculpture of Leda and the Swan in which the queen Leda of Sparta protected a swan from an eagle, on the basis of which a Roman marble copy in the Capitoline Museums is said to be "after Timotheus".
The basis of a Björk dress: The Mausoleum at the ancient city of Halicarnassus was the tomb of the king, Mausolus.As for "wattle and daub", I could wish that it had never been invented.
Basilica, Pompeii Vitruvian Etruscan temple model. - Archaic Etruscan - In his book, On Architecture, Vitruvius set out the rules for designing Tuscan temples. Vitruvian Harmonics Aspendos Tepidarium at Pompeii
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