BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE

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     The second edition published by Pieter Coecke in 1545 is almost identical to the first one which came out three years earlier; it has the same title page (the date 1545 replaces 1542) and the same plates. The formatting was systematically used again with a few rare exceptions. The elimination of a few abbreviations ("que" replacing "qu" f. 11, "desquelles" replacing "desqulles", "quelles" replacing "qlles" f. 18, etc.), and the addition of hyphens to mark a wordbreak (f. 12), result in minor displacements. Too tight a layout was sometimes lightened (ff. 38v°, 39), and some displeasing hyphenations were deleted ("eau-es", f. 13). A misaligned page number was corrected (f. 15).
One must point out a few typographical errors: ("demye cercle" instead of "demy cercle", f. 11v°, "monstrel: sarchitrave", instead of "monstre, l'architrave", f. 58v°, "Prohirides" instead of "Prothyrides" in the caption of illustration f. 38v°). A few puctuation changes (a comma instead of a full stop), or even spelling changes, are insignificant.
A third edition, reviewed and adjusted by P. Coecke, came out in 1550, the year of his death.

Frédérique Lemerle (Centre national de la recherche scientifique,
Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) – 2011

Critical bibliography

K. De Jonge, "Anticse Wercken: la découverte de l'architecture antique dans la pratique architecturale des anciens Pays-Bas. Livres de modèles et traités (1517-1599)", M.-C. Heck, F. Lemerle & Y. Pauwels (eds.), Théorie des arts et création artistique dans l'Europe du Nord du XVI^e au début du XVII^e siècle, Lille, PUL, 2002, pp. 55-74.

K. De Jonge, "Les éditions de la traduction française du Livre IV par Pieter Coecke van Aelst à Anvers en 1542 et 1545", S. Deswarte-Rosa (ed.), Sebastiano Serlio à Lyon. Architecture et imprimerie, Lyon, Mémoire active, 2004, pp. 275-277.

H. de la Fontaine Verwey, "Pieter Coecke van Aelst and the Publication of Serlio's Book on Architecture", Quærendo, 6, 1976, pp. 166-194.

S. Heringuez, La représentation de l’architecture dans l’œuvre des peintres romanistes de la première moitié du XVI^e siècle: Jean Gossart, Bernard van Orley et Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Doctoral thesis, Tours, Cesr, 2010, 1, pp. 305-322.

W. Kuyper, The Triumphant Entry of Renaissance Architecture into the Netherlands. The Joyeuse Entrée of Philip of Spain into Antwerp in 1549, Renaissance and Manierism Architecture in the Low Countries from 1530 to 1630, Alphen aan den Rijn, Canaletto, 1994.

J. Offerhaus,"Pieter Coecke et l'introduction des traités d'architecture aux Pays-Bas", J. Guillaume (ed.), Les traités d'architecture de la Renaissance, Paris, Picard, 1988, pp. 443-452.

Y. Pauwels, "Propagande architecturale et rhétorique du Sublime: Serlio et les ‘Joyeuses entrées’ de 1549", Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 137, Mai-June 2001, pp. 221-236.

Y. Pauwels, "Fête, propagande et image imprimée: les ‘Joyeuses entrées’ de Gand et d'Anvers (1549)", R. Crescenzo (ed.), Espaces de l'image, Nancy, 2002, Université de Nancy 2, pp. 167-188.

Y. Pauwels, "L'introduction des ordres d'architecture dans les Pays-Bas: entre Italie et Espagne", R. Dekoninck (ed.), Relations artistiques entre l’Italie et les anciens Pays-Bas, XVI^e-XVIII^e siècles. Bilan et perspectives, Brussels/Rome, Institut historique belge de Rome, 2012, pp. 53-59.