Saggio sopra il bello di proporzione in architettura
Saggio sopra il bello di proporzione in architettura is an 1806 Italian treatise on architectural proportion by Alessandro Barca (1741-1814), printed in Bassano by the Remondiniana press for students and practitioners of architecture. The plates show engraved column bases, capitals, and entablature sections drawn in fine line with grey tonal shading, each set against a framed sheet with a plate number and the draughtsman's signature. A designer could take from them the precise stepped profiles of classical mouldings and the clean method of showing a column as a sequence of measured parts.
