Architectura
This is an 1825 Italian edition of Vitruvius's treatise on architecture, edited by Simone Stratico and Giovanni Poleni and published in Udine by the Mattiuzzi brothers, aimed at scholars and students of classical building. The pictures are plain engraved plans of Roman theatres, temples and public buildings, drawn in fine black line on cream paper with lettered keys and dotted construction lines. A designer could draw on their clean diagrammatic layout, radial seating arrangements and symmetrical grid of columns for geometric plan compositions.
