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Vitruvius Pollio.

Vitruvius: the ten books on architecture. Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan. With illus. and original designs prepared under the direction of Herbert Langford Warren. - New York, Dover Publications [1960] - 331 p. illus. 21 cm.

"An unabridged and unaltered republication of the first edition of the English translation by Morris Hicky Morgan, originally published ... in 1914."

The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped humanist architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. This new, critical edition of Vitruvius' Ten Books of Architecture is the first to be published for an English-language audience in more than half a century. Expressing the range of Vitruvius' style, the translation, along with the critical commentary and illustrations, aims to shape a new image of the Vitruvius who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance.

ISBN: 978486206455 0486206459

LCCN: 60050037

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Architecture--Early works to 1800.
classical antiquity
Roman Empire
ancient history

LC Class. No.: NA2515 / .V73 1960

Dewey Class. No.: 720 MOR / 14600