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Four garden plans
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Regole generali di architetura (Di Architettura, book IV) (Venice, 1537), p. 75 verso, pl. LXXV
Geometrical study: flattened form constructed of numbered and lettered triangles
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SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. La pratica della perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro (Venice, 1559), p. 110
Geometrical study: diagram showing a three-dimensional star shape constructed from folded triangular forms
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SOURCE: Daniele Barbaro. La pratica della perspettiva di Monsignor Daniel Barbaro (Venice, 1559), p. 111
Human figure (also known as the Vitruvian Man) with arms and legs outstretched, positioned within a square and circle representing the centre of 'cosmic geometry'
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SOURCE: Vitruvius. De Architectura (Como, 1521), ed. Cesare Cesariano, Liber tertius, p. L NOTES: This 1521 edition of Cesare Cesariano's translation and commentary on Vitruvius's treatise entitled 'De Architectura' (Ten Books on Architecture) is the first edition of the treatise not in Latin. Vitruvius's original, unillustrated treatise was written during the first century BC. The woodcut illustrations in this edition, most probably drawn by Cesariano, are largely based on the cuts in the 1511 edition of Vitruvius edited by Giovanni Giocondo.
Geometric diagrams illustrating rudimentary shapes including triangles, a rhombus and an irregular shape
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), fo. 2 verso NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
Geometric diagrams illustrating shapes including a circle, semi-circle and square
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), fo. 3 recto NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
Geometric diagrams illustrating rudimentary angles and shapes including circles within squares
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), fo. 3 verso NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
Geometric diagrams illustrating angles and triangular shapes
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), fo. 4 recto NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
Geometric diagrams illustrating angles with triangular, semi-circular and square shapes
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), fo. 4 verso NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
Geometric diagram illustrating the angles and proportions of a pedimented doorway
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SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), fo. 16 verso NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
Plan of a Roman mosaic pavement discovered at Stunsfeild (Stonesfield), near Woodstock, Oxfordshire
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SOURCE: Batty Langley. Ancient masonry, both in the theory and practice (London, 1736), vol. II, pl. CCCCXLIX NOTES: This mosaic was destroyed soon after its discovery in the eighteenth century.
