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BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
The copperplates from 1582 were reused in this new edition of the third Livre d’architecture by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau; there are the same flaws, for example the format irregularities in the upper left angles of buildings XIII (plan) and XXV. In buildings IV and XXXVI, the order of the plates was inverted. The slightly narrower format compelled the publisher to move the two elevations of building XXXIII closer together. Lastly, the two plans for building XXIX are lacking. The printed text was reset with new initials, but with no changes; only the spelling of the author’s first name was modernised: “Iaques” in 1582, “Iacques” in 1615. Yves Pauwels (Centre d’études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2011 Critical bibliography
J. Androuet du Cerceau, Les trois livres d’architecture: Paris, 1559, 1561, 1582 (facsimile edition), Ridgewood N. J., Gregg Press Inc., 1965. J. Androuet du Cerceau, Les plus excellents bastiments de France..., Paris, 1576 and 1579, D. Thomson (ed.), Paris, Sand & Conti, 1988 (Chronology of documents and general bibliography pp. 310-316). M. Chatenet, "Les maisons des champs de papier : fiction et réalité des modèles de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau", M. Chatenet (ed.), La Maison des champs dans l’Europe de la Renaissance, Paris, Picard, 2006, pp. 69-86. H. von Geymüller, Les Du Cerceau. Leur vie et leur œuvre d’après les nouvelles recherches, Paris/London, Rouam/Wood & Co, 1887. D. Thomson, Renaissance Architecture. Critics Patrons Luxury, Manchester/New York, Manchester UP, 1993. D. Thomson, "Les trois Livres d’architecture de Jacques Ier Androuet Du Cerceau, à Paris en 1559, 1561 et 1582", S. Deswarte-Rosa (ed.), Sebastiano Serlio à Lyon. Architecture et imprimerie, Lyon, Mémoire Active, 2004, pp. 449-450.
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