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REVESE BRUTO, Ottavio (fl. 1590-1640). Archisesto per formar con facilità li cinque ordini d'architettura. Vicenza: Heirs of Dominico Amadio, 1627.
2° (319 x 215mm). Title etching of Revese Bruto’s adaptation of Galileo’s proportional compass or architectonic sector, 2 etched plates, one folding, 50 etched illustrations. Woodcut ornaments. (Some light soiling and browning, mainly marginal, leaves slightly cockled.) Contemporary vellum (old stains, a little bowed). Provenance: manuscript date of publication in black ink at foot of title.
FIRST EDITION, second issue of this scarce work, a demonstration by Revese Bruto of how to adapt Galileo’s proportional compass to architectural drawing. For this purpose each side of the arc was divided into four bands (for arches, doors and niches, pedestals, and cornices); these four bands were then subdivided into five further bands, one for each architectural order. Each of the orders is depicted in nine plates, showing the manner in which the sector could successfully draw columns, arches, pediments, porticos, niches, pedestals, and cornices in perfect proportion. The folding plate depicts the sector itself, with all the details and measurements marked. Cicognara greatly admired the plates designed 'con gusto ed intelligenza profonda dell'arte' but described the operation of the instrument as too time consuming, 'un gran perditempo'. Berlin Kat. 2612; BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books II, p.742; Cicognara 631; RIBA III, 2739; Riccardi I(ii) 351; Vinciana Aut. Ital. del '600 4396; not in Millard/Italian.
2° (319 x 215mm). Title etching of Revese Bruto’s adaptation of Galileo’s proportional compass or architectonic sector, 2 etched plates, one folding, 50 etched illustrations. Woodcut ornaments. (Some light soiling and browning, mainly marginal, leaves slightly cockled.) Contemporary vellum (old stains, a little bowed). Provenance: manuscript date of publication in black ink at foot of title.
FIRST EDITION, second issue of this scarce work, a demonstration by Revese Bruto of how to adapt Galileo’s proportional compass to architectural drawing. For this purpose each side of the arc was divided into four bands (for arches, doors and niches, pedestals, and cornices); these four bands were then subdivided into five further bands, one for each architectural order. Each of the orders is depicted in nine plates, showing the manner in which the sector could successfully draw columns, arches, pediments, porticos, niches, pedestals, and cornices in perfect proportion. The folding plate depicts the sector itself, with all the details and measurements marked. Cicognara greatly admired the plates designed 'con gusto ed intelligenza profonda dell'arte' but described the operation of the instrument as too time consuming, 'un gran perditempo'. Berlin Kat. 2612; BL/STC 17th-century Italian Books II, p.742; Cicognara 631; RIBA III, 2739; Riccardi I(ii) 351; Vinciana Aut. Ital. del '600 4396; not in Millard/Italian.
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