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Reglen van metselrijen op de vijue manieren van edificien : te wetene Thuscana, Dorica, Corinthia, eñ composita, ende daer by gesedt die exemplen vanden antiquijquen, die in din eeste deel met de leeringe van Vitruvio ouercommen : met noch toeghesedette figuren die inteerste met en waren ende sommige texten

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554 · 1549 · [Ouerghesedt ende gedruct Thantwerpen : Duer Peeter Couck van Aelst] · 50 pictures

A 1549 Dutch-language architecture treatise by Sebastiano Serlio, printed in Antwerp by Pieter Coecke van Aelst, setting out the five classical orders and masonry rules for builders and architects. The woodcut plates show façades, arches, rustication and moulded door and window surrounds drawn in plain outline, so a designer can take from them clear models for classical proportion, stone-block patterning and cornice profiles.

Architecture · Architecture -- Orders

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