A complete scientific review of the activity of the 16th-century architect, the subject of recent studies that have led to interesting critical discoveries.
Published for the first major exhibition on the life and work of Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola (1507-1573), the volume offers a complete scientific review of the activity of this architect, the subject of recent studies that have led to interesting critical discoveries.
The catalogue of the works, with in-depth, well-illustrated historical and critical profiles, is introduced by essays by the most authoritative experts on the work of Vignola. The works shown in the book include many drawings by the architect and his contemporaries, as well as paintings, etchings, manuscripts, commemorative medals. Of course there are also the plates from the architectural treatises of Vignola, which made him famous until the 1800s.