BOOKS ON ARCHITECTURE
This edition
of Julien Mauclerc's treatise was published in 1648, on the initiative
of Pierre Daret, Parisian publisher and engraver. One can recognize
the 1600 text, with a modernised or modified vocabulary (for example
“tuscanique” becomes “toscan”, “residu”
“restant”). Daret does away with the precise references
to Serlio's Book III, but adds annotations to the figures he has added
to the plates, among which is a method of drawing an Ionic volute explicitly
borrowed from Vignola. The print is smaller in order to allow each chapter
to take up two pages instead of the four it did in 1600. The dedication
to Henri IV, Mauclerc’s long “proème” and preliminary
remarks are replaced by a new dedication, and a new word to the reader.
At the end of the volume there are five plates representing the intercolumniations,
the orders according to Palladio, Scamozzi and Vignola, and finally
a few rules of perspective. All of this is commented on in an “avertissement”.
Two plates coming from the original edition conclude the volume. This
time, it benefited from a privilege. It was provided with new initials
and new border decorations. Yves Pauwels (Centre d'études supérieures de la Renaissance, Tours) - 2006
Critical bibliographyJ. Châtenay, La vie intellectuelle en Aunis et Saintonge de 1540 à 1610, La Rochelle, Éditions du Quartier Latin, 1959. J. Levron, René Boyvin, graveur angevin du XVIe siècle, Angers, Petit, 1941. S. Lhopiteau, Pierre Daret, graveur, éditeur, marchand, peintre : étude monographique. Dissertation, Université de Paris-IV (Paris-Sorbonne), 2005. M. Marrache-Gouraud, "Cabinets et curieux du Poitou, aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles", P. Martin & D. Moncond'huy (ed.), Curiosité et cabinets de curiosités, Neuilly, Atlande, 2004, pp. 93-108. Y. Pauwels, "Hans Blum et les Français, 1550-1650", Scholion. Mitteilungsblatt der Stiftung Bibliothek Werner Oechslin, 6, 2010, pp. 77-88. D. Thomson, "Architecture et humanisme au XVIe siècle. Le Premier Livre d’Architecture de Julien Mauclerc", Bulletin monumental, 158, 1980, pp. 7-40. D. Thomson, "Le Premier Livre d’Architecture de
Mauclerc, à La Rochelle, chez Jérôme Haultin en
1600", S. Deswarte-Rosa (ed), Sebastiano Serlio à Lyon.
Architecture et imprimerie, Lyon, Mémoire active, 2004,
p. 471.
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