Vitruvius

(noun)

(born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC), was a Roman author, architect, and civil engineer during the 1st century BC perhaps best known for his multi-volume work entitled De Architectura.

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Examples of Vitruvius in the following topics:

  • Etruscan Temples

    • Archaeology and a written accounts by the Roman architect Vitruvius during the late first century BCE allows us to reconstruct a basic model of a typical Etruscan temple.
    • Nevertheless, Vitruvius remains the inevitable starting point for a description and a contrast of Etruscan temples with their Greek and Roman equivalents.

  • Center of Mass of the Human Body

    • The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described[4] by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura.

  • Italian Trade Cities

    • The rediscovery of Vitruvius meant that the architectural principles of Antiquity could be observed once more, and Renaissance artists were encouraged, in the atmosphere of humanist optimism, to excel the achievements of the Ancients, like Apelles, of whom they read.

  • Introduction to the Renaissance

    • Based on the specifications in Vitruvius' De architectura (1st century BC), Leonardo tried to draw the perfectly proportioned man.

  • Defining Physiology

    • The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described[4] by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura.