1. Vitruvius - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Biography of Marcus vitruvius Pollio, Roman architect of the 1st century BC, most noted as the author of De Architectura. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius

Vitruvius From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (born c. 80–70 BC, died after c. 15 BC) was a Roman writer architect and engineer (possibly praefectus fabrum during military service or praefect architectus armamentarius of the apparitor status group), active in the 1st century BC . By his own description Vitruvius served as a Ballista (artilleryman), the third class of arms in the military offices. He likely served as chief of the ballista (senior officer of artillery) in charge of doctores ballistarum (artillery experts) and libratores who actually operated the machines. Contents Biography De Architectura Roman technology Machines ... edit Biography Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci Little is known about Vitruvius' life. His first name Marcus and his cognomen Pollio are uncertain. Cetius Faventinus speaks of "Vitruvius Polio aliique auctores" in his epitome; it is possible that the cognomen derives from this mention by Cetius, meaning Vitruvius, Polio, and others. Most inferences about his life are extracted from his only surviving work De Architectura , though he is mentioned by Pliny the Elder and Frontinus Born a free Roman citizen, by his own account Vitruvius served the

2. Vitruvius Ten Books A full online translation of vitruvius is available at the Latin Library, and there is discussion on the Britanica website). http://www.lih.gre.ac.uk/histhe/vitruvius.htm

LIH Landscape Information Hub: Vitruvius Ten Books Home Up Definitions History ... Origins of landscape Architecture Vitruvius The Ten Books on Architecture (Translated by Morris Hicky Morgan, in 1914, edited by Tom Turner in 2000. A full online translation of Vitruvius is available at the Latin Library , and there is discussion on the Britanica website This is the first and most famous text in the history of western landscape architecture, architecture, enginering and town planning. In Roman times the architect was, from the word’s Greek etymology, a ‘chief technician’. The Ten Books' Contents list reveals that most aspects of engineering, including harbours, site planning, clocks, aqueducts, pumps and siege engines, come with the author's technical scope. Only a tiny proportion of these subjects come within the twenty-first century scope of ‘architecture’. Vitruvius Pollio’s treatise De Architectura , was written circa 27 BC and is the only book of its kind to survive from antiquity. These online extracts from Vitruvius comprise the first Book and his comments on what we would now classify as garden design. Book 1 The Preface is used by the author as an opportunity to fawn on his emperor.

3. VITRUVIUS Brief biography and outline of the contents of his famous work De architectura from HyperHistory Online. http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/people_n2/persons2_n2/vitruvius.html

VITRUVIUS 1st century BC Roman Architect Marcus Vitruvius is the author of the famous treatise 'De architectura'. The work is divided into 10 books dealing with city planning and architecture in general; building materials; temple construction; public buildings; and private buildings; clocks, hydraulics; and civil and military engines. Vitruvius was an admirer of Greek architecture and wished to preserve the classical tradition in the design of temples and public buildings. His work was used as a classic text book from ancient Roman times to the Renaissance. www link : De Architectura Text

4. Vitruvius 12 plates from an 18thcentury Venetian edition, hosted by the University of Pennsylvania. http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/george/vitruvius.html

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (c. 90-20 B.C.E.) fig. 1 fig. 2 fig. 3 fig. 4 ... fig. 12 A military engine for assailing a wall List of Illustrations fig. 1 fig. 2 fig. 3 fig. 4 fig. 5 fig. 6 fig. 7 fig. 8 fig. 9 fig. 10 fig. 11 fig. 12 Bibliography List of Illustrations Bibliography Index Patrick A. George (pgeorge@ccat.sas.upenn.edu)

5. Vitruvius --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on vitruvius Roman architect, engineer, and author of the celebrated treatise De architectura (On Architecture), http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9075580/Vitruvius

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6. No. 580: Vitruvius vitruvius ten volumes on technologies of the Roman world. http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi580.htm

No. 580: VITRUVIUS by John H. Lienhard Click here for audio of Episode 580. Today, we learn that to hold knowledge, we must also add to it. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. I n the years just before Christ was born, the chief engineer of the Roman world was a man named Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Vitruvius began as an architect and engineer under Julius Caesar. Later he took charge of Octavian's siege engines. And, toward the end his life, he wrote a ten-volume account of known technology under Octavian's patronage. Here we see how much more than a mere armorer he was. But we also see the weakness of Roman technology. Vitruvius's scope is astonishing. Historians call him the great Roman architect. Most of his books do deal with buildings. But look more closely: He talks about city planning, building materials, and acoustics. He has a lot to say about timekeeping. He explains water clocks and sundials. He describes all kinds of pumps. Before he's done, he's written about astronomy, medicine, music, the arts even contract law.

7. LacusCurtius • Vitruvius On Architecture English entry page to the complete Latin text of the De Architectura, plus an English translation. (Roman architecture) http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Vitruvius/home.html

mail: Bill Thayer Latine Italiano Help Up Home Vitruvius: On Architecture "Mausoleum": engraving by C. Holdenwang, 1800 Frontispiece to the Latin edition of the de Architectura by Augustus Rode, meant as a reconstruction of the mausoleum of Halicarnassus. A caption refers the reader to the Preface to Book VII of Vitruvius and to Pliny, NH 36.iv § 9 . (For some much more recent reconstructions and a good critical discussion of what is involved, see the article by W. R. Lethaby Another orphan text that no one wanted to enter, but that many nevertheless will be glad to see online. (Why is it that the self-aggrandizements of Cicero, the lecheries and whining of Ovid and the blatherings of that debauched old goose Seneca made it onto the Net before the works that give us solid technical information about what Rome was really good at, viz. the construction of her great buildings and works of engineering?) As almost always, I retyped the text rather than scanning it: not only to minimize errors prior to proofing, but as an opportunity for me to become intimately familiar with the work, an exercise which I heartily recommend. (Well-meaning attempts to get me to scan text, if successful, would merely turn me into some kind of machine: gambit declined.) Anyway, the text has been thoroughly proofed, and I believe it to be free of errors

8. The Vitruvius Project Welcome to the vitruvius project web site. Who We Are Who vitruvius was and why we honor him Introduction to the vitruvius Project What We Do http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~Vit/index.html

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9. Vitruvius Woodblock illustrations were added to vitruvius s text in the edition published by Cesare Cesariano (Como 1521). Images from Art Serve at the Australian http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/arch.sources/vitruvius/

vitruvius (Cesare Cesariano, Como 1521) This is a profusely illustrated edition of the most famous of antique texts on architecture. It was known throughout the Middle Ages, in multiple copies and probably versions. Unfortunately, it reached the Renaissance without illustrations. For such a subject, this was a grave drawback - the more so since Vitruvius' Latin was not of the easiest (cf. Alberti's comment that 'The Greeks thought he was writing in Latin, and the Latins in Greek"). Although the dearth of original illustrations, and the difficulty of the language, meant impenetrability, it also gave marvellous freedom to the Renaissance. Various of the editors/illustrators of Vitruvius were able to see antique architecture in their own image, as it were; so that Renaissance editions of Vitruvius give us a clear picture of antique architecture in their own image, as it were; so that Renaissance editions of Vitruvius give us a clear picture of just how narrow was the renaissance' perception of some aspects of antique architecture. The illustrator who provided these woodblocks very considerately labelled all of them, thereby relieving this (relieved) Web maintainer of the need to provide a database of them...

10. Vitruvius (ca. 70-ca. 25 BC) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scientific Biogra Roman name Marcus vitruvius Pollio. Roman architect and encyclopedist who wrote approximately 10 books discussing such subjects as acoustics and astronomy. http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Vitruvius.html

Branch of Science Scholars Nationality Roman Vitruvius (ca. 70-ca. 25 BC) Roman name: Marcus Vitruvius Pollio. Roman architect and encyclopedist who wrote approximately 10 books discussing such subjects as acoustics and astronomy. His On Architecture remained the chief reference on architectural matters until the Italian Renaissance. Additional biographies: Bonn Greek and Roman Science and Technology

11. Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books On Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) The full text of the English translation by Morris Hicky Morgan (1914), hosted by the Perseus Project. Easy navigation through the text; http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.02.0073

12. Vitruvius Extracts from architectural texts of Marcus vitruvius Pollio, c 25 BCE. http://www.humanistictexts.org/vitruvius.htm

Authors born between 200 BCE and 00 CE Jesus Ben Sirach Sima Qian Tiruvalluvar Lucretius [ Vitruvius ] Jesus of Nazareth Epictetus Click Up For A Summary Of Each Author Contents Introduction Connections in Architecture The Education of an Architect On Budget Overruns ... Source Introduction Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (active around 25 BCE) wrote ten books on architecture. Other that what can be deduced from these books, very little is known of his life. He lived at some time between the death of Julius Caesar and the battle of Actium, probably in the reign of Augustus. The dedication of his books indicates that Augustus was the patron of Vitruvius, so that the books were probably presented in about 25 BCE. From the text one can gather that Vitruvius was a creative person with wide-ranging interests. He clearly took pride in architecture as serving the needs of man and as providing an important expression of human endeavor. Vitruvius aims to demonstrate the excellence of the science that he possesses. He notes that a s in other arts, an architect must constantly keep in view the intention of the work and the material used to express that intention. He must also be versed in history, law, moral philosophy and physics. Vitruvius presents architecture as a thoroughly humanistic art

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14. Vitruvius vitruvius was not a master of style he has all the marks of one unused to composition, to whom writing is a painful task, said later Morris Hicky Morgan http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/vitruv.htm

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D ... Z by birthday from the calendar Credits and feedback TimeSearch for Books and Writers by Bamber Gascoigne Vitruvius (fl. 46-30 B.C.) Roman architect, engineer, and theorist, whose textbook De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the only complete treatise on architecture to survive from Classical Antiquity. It influenced deeply from the Early Renaissance onwards artists, thinkers, and architects, among them Leon Battista Alberti (1404-72), Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519), and Michelangelo (1475-1564). Vitruvius was not a master of style - "he has all the marks of one unused to composition, to whom writing is a painful task," said later Morris Hicky Morgan, who translated the book into English. "It was a wise and useful provision of the ancients to transmit their thoughts to posterity by recording them in treatises, so that they should not be lost, but, being developed in succeeding generations through publication in books, should gradually attain in later times, to the highest refinement of learning. And so the ancients deserve no ordinary, but unending thanks, because they did not pass on in envious silence, but took care that their ideas of every kind should be transmitted to the future in their writings." (from The Ten Books on Architecture , trans. by Morris Hicky Morgan, 1914)

15. Translation Of The Text Accompanying Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows that is that 4 http://www.geoman.com/Vitruvius.html

Text accompanying Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man Vitruvius, the architect, says in his work on architecture that the measurements of the human body are distributed by Nature as follows that is that 4 fingers make 1 palm, and 4 palms make 1 foot, 6 palms make 1 cubit; 4 cubits make a man's height. And 4 cubits make one pace and 24 palms make a man; and these measures he used in his buildings. If you open your legs so much as to decrease your height 1/14 and spread and raise your arms till your middle fingers touch the level of the top of your head you must know that the centre of the outspread limbs will be in the navel and the space between the legs will be an equilateral triangle. The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height. The preceding is the complete translation of the text accompanying Leonardo DaVinci's Vitruvian Man. It is actually a translation of Vitruvius, as Leonardo's drawing was originally an illustration for a book on the works of Vitruvius. The Notebooks of Leonardo DaVinci Vol. 1 (of a 2 vol. set in paperback) pp. 182-3

16. Vitruvius - Wikipédia Marcus vitruvius Pollio (i.e. 1. század második fele) római építész, hadimérnök és szakíró. Újabb feltételezés szerint Julius Caesar hadimérnökével, http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvius

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17. VITRUVIUS De Architectura Libri X This site is about the ten books of architecture as written by Marcus vitruvius Pollio in the first century AD, during the reign of the Roman emperor http://www.vitruvius.be/

VITRUVIUS De architectura Libri X Book I Book II Book III Book IV ... Book V Book VI Book VII Book VIII Book IX Book X Building types Basilica Curia Suggestions and remarks? don't hesitate to send me a message

18. Vitruvian Man - Aiwaz.net A passage from Roman architect vitruvius (Marcus vitruvius Pollio), describing the perfect human form in geometrical terms, was the source of inspiration http://www.aiwaz.net/Leonardo/vitruvianman/index.html

AIWAZ.NET Renaissance Leonardo DA VINCI Vitruvian Man ... Vitruvian Man Sign in to use aiwaz.net advanced features. Sign in Virtual Art Gallery Forum Download ... Support us Encyclopedia Leonardo da Vinci, biography Durer, Albrecht Gematria, Hebrew Gematria, Latin ... Gematria, Greek Related Collections Leonardo da Vinci - drawings Leonardo da Vinci - paintings From our Downloads Desktops Light 1 Plečnik`s lights More in Downloads desktop images, screensavers, flash games, tools and more... Vitruvian Man from: David Bowman Leonardo da Vinci, Vitruvian Man, 1513, dim. 25 x 19.2 cm A passage from Roman architect Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio), describing the perfect human form in geometrical terms, was the source of inspiration for numerous renaissance artists. Only one of these, the incomparable Leonardo da Vinci, was successful in correctly illustrating the proportions outlined in Vitruvius' work De Architectura , and the result went on to become the most recognized drawings in the world, and came to represent the standard of human physical beauty. It was the version produced by Leonardo da Vinci, whose vast knowledge of both anatomy and geometry made him uniquely suited to the task. De Architectura established a system of ratios for the construction of 'perfect' buildings that exhibited Vitruvius' three necessary principles of durability, usefulness, and beauty. Vitruvius' s system proved a durable one, helping to spark a renewal of architectural interest in the renaissance. As Vitruvius believed that good architecture was in essence a continuation of the laws of nature, he demonstrated that his system applied to the formation of natural structures, including man.

19. Harvard University Press: On Architecture, I : Books 1-5 By Vitruvius On Architecture, I Books 15 by vitruvius, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/L251.html

Home Ordering Search/Browse Contact ... HUP On Architecture, I Books 1-5 Vitruvius Translator Frank Granger Vitruvius (Marcus V. Pollio), Roman architect and engineer, studied Greek philosophy and science and gained experience in the course of professional work. He was one of those appointed to be overseers of imperial artillery or military engines, and was architect of at least one unit of buildings for Augustus in the reconstruction of Rome. Late in life and in ill health he completed, sometime before 27 BCE De Architectura which, after its rediscovery in the fifteenth century, was influential enough to be studied by architects from the early Renaissance to recent times. In On Architecture Vitruvius adds to the tradition of Greek theory and practice the results of his own experience. The contents of this treatise in ten books are as follows. Book 1: Requirements for an architect; town planning; design, cities, aspects; temples. 2: Materials and their treatment. Greek systems. 3: Styles. Forms of Greek temples. Ionic. 4: Styles. Corinthian, Ionic, Doric; Tuscan; altars. 5: Other public buildings (fora, basilicae, theatres, colonnades, baths, harbours). 6: Sites and planning, especially of houses. 7: Construction of pavements, roads, mosaic floors, vaults. Decoration (stucco, wall painting, colours). 8: Hydraulic engineering; water supply; aqueducts. 9: Astronomy. Greek and Roman discoveries; signs of the zodiac, planets, moon phases, constellations, astrology, gnomon, sundials. 10: Machines for war and other purposes.

20. Vitruvius: Writing The Body Of Architecture:: Books At Arcspace.com vitruvius s De architectura, consisting of ten volumina, or scrolls, is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, http://www.arcspace.com/books/vitruvius/vitruvius_book.html

THE BOOKCASE Vitruvius Writing the Body of Architecture By Indra Kagis McEwen Publisher: The MIT Press Search: All Products Baby Beauty Books DVD Electronics Gourmet Food Magazine Subscriptions Musical Instruments Music Computers Software VHS Keywords: Buy the book at amazon.com through arcspace, and a small portion of the proceeds from your purchase will go to support our efforts to keep you informed. More Book Reviews Vitruvius's De architectura , consisting of ten volumina, or scrolls, is the only major work on architecture to survive from classical antiquity, and until the eighteenth century it was the text to which all other architectural treatises referred. While European classicists have focused on the factual truth of the text itself, English-speaking architects and architectural theorists have viewed it as a timeless source of valuable metaphors. Departing from both perspectives, Indra Kagis McEwen examines the work's meaning and significance in its own time. Vitruvius dedicated De architectura to his patron Augustus Caesar, the first Roman emperor, whose rise to power inspired its composition near the end of the first century B.C.

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