Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture

Vitruvius: Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780521553643.

For the first time in more than half a century, Vitruvius Ten Books on Architecture is being published in English. The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the Architecture libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shaped architecture and the image of the architect from the Renaissance to the present. Demonstrating the range of Vitruvius style, this new edition includes examples from archaeological sites discovered since World War II and not previously published in English language translations. Rowlands new translation and Howes critical commentary and illustrations provide a new image of Vitruvius, who emerges as an inventive and creative thinker, rather than the normative summarizer, as he was characterized in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Ingrid D. Rowland is an associate professor of Art History at the University of Chicago. Thomas Noble Howe is a professor in the Department of Art at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas.