ABC/183 - Treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture ... with illustration, notes and an examination of Grecian architecture (2 vols) vol I

ABC/183

Treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture ... with illustration, notes and an examination of Grecian architecture (2 vols) vol I

1 volume

The first volume of a treatise in two volumes on the decorative part of Civil Grecian Architecture. It comprises notes and original etchings of elevations, sections and plans of different architectural elements, most of them at scale. Some of the subjects covered are: Elements of Beauty in Architecture; Origin and Progress of Grecian Architecture; Parts which compose the Orders of Architecture, and of their Properties, Application, and Enrichments; Orders of Architecture in General; Tuscan Order; Doric Order; Ionic Order; Composite Order; Corinthian Order; Pilasters; Persians and Caryatides. Buildings included are: Tombs of Benihassan; Parthenon, Athens; Great Hexastyle Temple at Paestum; Temple of Apollo; Portico of Philip in the Island of Delos; Temple at Corinth; Temple on the Ilyssus; Temple of Minerva Polias; Temple of Erechteus; Choragic Monument of Lysicrates; Temple of Jupiter Olympius, Athens; Primitive Buildings; Columns illustrating the Five Orders; Theatre of Marcellus; Villa Capra; Basilica at Vicenza; Types of Entablatures and Capitals; Temple of Jupiter Stator.

Good condition. Some stained pages