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The architectural treatise in the Italian Renaissance : architectural invention, ornament and literary culture

Vitruvius's Ten Books of Architecture was the fountainhead of architectural theory in the Italian Renaissance. This study examines the Italian Renaissance architects' efforts to negotiate between imitation and reinvention of classicism

Print Book, English, 2010
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2010