C.M. Delagardette & Jacques Barozzio de Vignole - Règles des cinq Ordres d'Architecture de Vignole & Les leçons élémentaires des Ombres dans - 1797

DELAGARDETTE Claude-Mathieu

A volume containing two works

1. Rules of Vignola's Five Orders of Architecture

A work in which one provides: an idea of Geometry, definitions of the geometric figures necessary for the study of Architecture; the formation of the Orders, rigorously demonstrated, in the origin of architecture; their general division; the particular proportions of each of them; the differences that characterize them; an easy method to draw them; the details of a Doric Order from Poeftum, measured by the author on-site; and finally, the necessary notions about the accessory Orders.

By C.M. Delagardette (1762-1805), Architect, Pensionnaire of the Republic - New edition. Completely redesigned and enriched with new plates, such as the Pantheon of Rome and its details, etc.

50 boards

2. 'The elementary lessons of shadows in architecture, demonstrated by principles drawn from nature.' By the same author.

25 pages.

In Paris, at Joubert, the Year V of the Republic; (year 1797 old style).

The book includes 63 pages - 75 plates - 26 x 20 cm - 1 kg.

Complete edition of the famous treatise on architecture by Vignole (1507-1573).

Complete the 75 pages.


Giacomo or Jacopo Barozzi (known as da Vignola and in French Vignole), born in Vignola (Duchy of Modena) on October 1, 1507, and died in Rome on July 7, 1573, was an Italian architect and a theorist of Renaissance architecture. He succeeded Michelangelo as the architect of Saint Peter's.

The set is in very good condition.

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