The ten books on Architecture

“””Vitruvius is the author of De architectura, known today as The Ten Books on Architecture,^[14] a treatise written of Latin and Greek on architecture, dedicated to the emperor Augustus. In the preface of Book I, Vitruvius dedicates his writings so to give personal knowledge of the quality of buildings to the emperor. Likely Vitruvius is referring to Marcus Agrippa‘s campaign of public repairs and improvements. This work is the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. This text “influenced deeply from the Early Renaissance onwards artists, thinkers, and architects, among them Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72), Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), and Michelangelo (1475-1564).” ^[15] The next major book on architecture, Alberti’s reformulation of Ten Books, was not written until 1452.”””

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