Vignola codified the rules of Classical Architecture for the Italian Renaissance .
Ware\'s great achievement in perspective..
Bayley and architectural expert Henry Hope Reed set Mr.
Introductory notes by Mr.
Over 300 illustrations illuminate the text, including 37 full-page plates and 267 smaller figures.
Especially important are its detailed practical instructions for designing Classical arches and vaults, roofs and domes, doors and windows, walls and ceilings, steps and staircases, and more.
The American Vignola contains tables of the Tuscan, Ionic, Doric, Corinthian, and Composite Orders; measured drawings of the great monuments of the ancient, Renaissance, and baroque periods; and guides for drawing and establishing geometrical relations.
As the Renaissance architect Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola helped to recover the lost laws of Classical Architecture that made possible the architectural wonders of the Italian Renaissance, Ware helped lay the groundwork for the wonders of the American Renaissance.
The American Vignola is his textbook on that art.
He became America\'s leading teacher of the art of designing Classical architecture. in 1865, and sixteen years later, the School of Architecture at Columbia University.
Ware, founded America\'s first school of Architecture at M.
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Its author, William R.
More than any other document of the period, The American Vignola laid the groundwork for this grand resurgence in American architecture.
We built with unparalleled grandeur, architect and scholar John Barrington Bayley observes, and our Architecture led the world.
During this American Renaissance were built countless libraries, museums, universities, courthouses, capitol buildings and other structures, both public and private, rich with domes, pediments, colonnades, and other Classical features. -- John Barrington Bayley, from the Introductory Notes to The American Vignola From 1890 to 1940, Americans designed and built Classical Architecture on an extraordinary scale.
Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance. . .
Vignola codified the rules of Classical Architecture for the Italian Renaissance
