DIETTERLIN, Wendel (1550-1599). Architectura von Austheilung Symetria und Proportion der fünf Seulen . Nuremberg: Balthasar Caÿmox, 1598.
DIETTERLIN, Wendel (1550-1599). Architectura von Austheilung Symetria und Proportion der fünf Seulen . Nuremberg: Balthasar Caÿmox, 1598. 5 parts in one volume, 2 o (366 x 274 mm). 21 leaves of consecutively numbered plates and text. Etched title within architectural border, etched portrait of the author, 4 etched part titles, and 195 plates. 9 text leaves, in German, fol. 23 including a half-page engraved illustration. Richly gold-tooled red morocco, royal arms in the second compartment, edges gilt, by Gruel (some light rubbing to joints). Provenance : acquired from Weyhe, 1963. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, published simultaneously in Latin. There are known to be variant issues, and the numbering itself is not consistent, but this conforms to the first issue with the etched title-page lettered in the plate and bearing Balthasar Caÿmox's name only; the two columns on fol. 23 having 27 lines of text; and the reading "Columma" on the first line of fol. 175. Dietterlin's celebrated collection of 195 "designs of great originality" (Fairfax Murray) immediately inspired designers of the 17th century, and was again embraced as an important reference during the 19th-century revival across Europe. These designs had been originally published in parts from 1593, and first collected in this 1598 Nuremberg edition. The collection was intended for jewelers, carvers, cabinet-makers and other craftsmen, and is arranged in the fashionable format of the "column book." Each of the five orders of the column is dealt with separately, the author first giving a brief description of the order and its members, and then the lavishly ornamented designs of columns, cornices, pilasters, windows, porticos, fountains, tombs and furniture. Fowler observes that "the plates depict the most fantastic designs in the most lurid taste which show, for the most part, no regard for the possibility of execution in any building material," and alhough the Architectura is not a pattern book for architects, a few designs are known to have been executed, notably one employed for the west entrance of Charlton House, Kent. Fairfax Murray German 134; Fowler 105.
DIETTERLIN, Wendel (1550-1599). Architectura von Austheilung Symetria und Proportion der fünf Seulen . Nuremberg: Balthasar Caÿmox, 1598.
DIETTERLIN, Wendel (1550-1599). Architectura von Austheilung Symetria und Proportion der fünf Seulen . Nuremberg: Balthasar Caÿmox, 1598. 5 parts in one volume, 2 o (366 x 274 mm). 21 leaves of consecutively numbered plates and text. Etched title within architectural border, etched portrait of the author, 4 etched part titles, and 195 plates. 9 text leaves, in German, fol. 23 including a half-page engraved illustration. Richly gold-tooled red morocco, royal arms in the second compartment, edges gilt, by Gruel (some light rubbing to joints). Provenance : acquired from Weyhe, 1963. FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, published simultaneously in Latin. There are known to be variant issues, and the numbering itself is not consistent, but this conforms to the first issue with the etched title-page lettered in the plate and bearing Balthasar Caÿmox's name only; the two columns on fol. 23 having 27 lines of text; and the reading "Columma" on the first line of fol. 175. Dietterlin's celebrated collection of 195 "designs of great originality" (Fairfax Murray) immediately inspired designers of the 17th century, and was again embraced as an important reference during the 19th-century revival across Europe. These designs had been originally published in parts from 1593, and first collected in this 1598 Nuremberg edition. The collection was intended for jewelers, carvers, cabinet-makers and other craftsmen, and is arranged in the fashionable format of the "column book." Each of the five orders of the column is dealt with separately, the author first giving a brief description of the order and its members, and then the lavishly ornamented designs of columns, cornices, pilasters, windows, porticos, fountains, tombs and furniture. Fowler observes that "the plates depict the most fantastic designs in the most lurid taste which show, for the most part, no regard for the possibility of execution in any building material," and alhough the Architectura is not a pattern book for architects, a few designs are known to have been executed, notably one employed for the west entrance of Charlton House, Kent. Fairfax Murray German 134; Fowler 105.
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