L' architettura generale di Vitruvio
L'architettura generale di Vitruvio is a 1747 Venetian edition of Vitruvius's classical architecture treatise, with commentary by Claude Perrault and Daniele Barbaro, printed by Giambatista Albrizzi for readers of architectural theory. The plates are engraved technical drawings: plan and elevation of a temple with columns, Corinthian capitals with lettered key diagrams, and Ionic column orders with labelled profiles and bases. A designer could take their precise, tidy lettering and clean schematic layouts as a model for diagrammatic classical reference.
