[Prints from Vignola's Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura, 1642]

1642 · [Amsterdam : Ian Iansz & Jan van Hilten] · 22 pictures

This is an early seventeenth-century set of architectural engravings of altar and tomb designs, published in Amsterdam in 1642 by Ian Iansz and Jan van Hilten, drawing on Vignola's treatise on the five orders for architects, carvers and patrons. The prints are frontal elevations in fine black line with dense hatching, showing tiered pediments, paired columns, scrolled brackets, cherubs and niches holding statues or narrative reliefs. A designer could take from them the strict symmetry, classical proportions and ornament vocabulary of Baroque-era monuments.

Altars -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800 · Tombs -- Designs and plans -- Early works to 1800

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