Barbara A. Barletta
The Origins of the Greek Architectural Orders
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
232 pp.; 87 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(0521792452)
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In his Ten Books on Architecture, Vitruvius provides the earliest surviving account of the origins of what we have called, since the Renaissance, the orders of Greek architecture. Vitruvius, however, wrote during the early years of the Roman Empire—some six hundred years after the orders first developed—and his first-hand experience of early Greek architecture must have been limited at best. The numerous Greek treatises on architecture that he had at his disposal and to which...