Author and Audience in Vitruvius' de Architectura

by Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols

Vitruvius' De architectura is the only extant classical text on architecture, and its impact on Renaissance masters including Leonardo da Vinci is well-known. But what was the text's purpose in its own time (ca. 20s BCE)? In this book, Marden Fitzpatrick Nichols reveals how Vitruvius pitched the Greek discipline of architecture to his Roman readers, most of whom were undoubtedly laymen. The inaccuracy of Vitruvius' architectural rules, when compared...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108969259
• ISBN13: 9781108969253
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"