[Architecture] Le Nouveau Vignole

Ou Regles des Cinq Ordres d'Architecture par Jacques Barozzio. Enrichi de Moulures, Cartels et Culs de lampes. Composés et gravés par Babel. Dédié aux artistes, Paris, F. Chereau, 1755.

Sm. 4to., modern half-cloth with mauve cartonnized sides, title engraving pasted on front cover, incl. 53 copper-engravings, such as the title and 11 verso illustrations with explanation. Stains in front and back, apart from that in reasonable condition. Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola was trained as a painter and an architect. He studied Antiquity in Rome , worked as a painter for the Vatican, and was one of the most influential Italian architects of 16th-cy Mannerism.