BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE



Author(s) Girard, Albert
Hondius, Hendrik
Marolois, Samuel
Vredeman de Vries, Jan
Vredeman de Vries, Paul
Title
L’architecture contenant la toscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée...
Imprint Amsterdam, Johannes Janssonius, 1628
Localisation Paris, Ensba, 13331 4°
Subject Military architecture, Orders
Transcribed version of the text

French

     La haulte & fameuse science, consistante en cinq manieres d’edifices ou fabriques... written by Jan and Paul Vredeman de Vries was published in Dutch and in French by Hondius in 1606. The French edition was reissued afterward by Johannes Janssonius first under the title Les cinq rangs de l’architecture (1617, 1620...), then in 1628 under the title, L’architecture contenant la toscane, dorique, ionique, corinthiaque et composée...

Piet Lombaerde (Hoger Instituut voor Architectuurwetenschappen Henry van de Velde,
 Association Université Anvers) – 2006

Critical bibliography

U. Schütte (ed.), Architekt und Ingenieur. Baumeister in Krieg und Frieden, Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, 1984, pp. 362-363.

P. Fuhring & G. Luijten (ed.), Hollstein’s Dutch & Flemish Etchings, Engravings and Woodcuts 1450-1700, Vredeman de Vries 1555-1571, 48, 2, Rotterdam, Sound & Vision Interactive, 1997, p. 231.

N. M. Orenstein, Hendrick Hondius and the Business of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Holland (Studies in Prints and Printmaking, 1), Rotterdam, Sound & Vision Interactive, 1996.

P. S. Zimmermann, Die Architectura von Hans Vredeman de Vries. Entwicklung der Renaissancearchitektur in Mitteleuropa, Munich/Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2002, pp. 76-81.