Cours D'Architecture Enseigné Dans L'Academie Royale D'Architecture
Cours d'Architecture, a 1698 French architecture treatise by François Blondel, taught at the Académie Royale d'Architecture in Paris for its students and fellow architects. The plates are engraved architectural drawings of classical orders, arches, and column proportions, with module measurements and profile sections labelled in the margins. Sentence two: the pictures are precise orthographic elevations in fine line with hatched shadow, showing how column bases, capitals, and arcades were set out, which a designer could use as a clean reference for classical rhythm and proportion.
