A parallel of the antient architecture with the modern : in a collection of ten principal authors who have written upon the five orders ... (1664)
Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray, 1606-1676, Evelyn, John, 1620-1706, Evelyn, John, 1620-1706. Account of architects and architecture, Alberti, Leon Battista, 1404-1472. De statua. English · London : Printed by Tho. Roycroft for John Place · leaf 126
- firm’d, and pofitive Example , nor indeed fo much as any intelligible defcription of it in the writings of Vitruvius^ I fhall make no great reckoning of their Inventions. 1 have likewife obferv’d, that Leon Baptifia Alberti ( the very beft of thole which remain after Daniel Barbaro') has fpoken…
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