Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura

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Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura

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In Giacomo da Vignola
…mind is epitomized in his Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura of 1562, which remained a standard textbook on the architectural orders for three centuries. He also wrote on perspective in Le due regole della prospettiva pratica, which was published posthumously (1583) and had a short life.
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Renaissance architecture

In Western architecture: Italian Mannerism or Late Renaissance (1520–1600)
…Vignola, who wrote a treatise, Regola delli cinque ordini d’architettura (1562; “Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture”), devoted solely to a consideration of the architectural orders and their proportions. Like Palladio’s book, Vignola’s Regola became a textbook for later Classical architecture.
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