Ten books on architecture
by Dewar, Michael J, Howe, Thomas Noble, Vitruvius, Rowland, Ingrid Drake
This work reconsiders the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, 'On Architecture'. The ideal, 'Vitruvian' man is not simply an architect in the narrow sense. He is a builder of Augustus' legacy, and the archetype for a distinctly imperial ethos of civic expertise.
"This book offers a new assessment of the Roman architect Vitruvius and his treatise, On Architecture, dedicated to Augustus in the 20s BCE. Once reviled by scholars, Vitruvius emerges as an imperial expert par excellence when read alongside literary coevals through an intertext…
Greek knowledge and the Roman world -- The self-fashioning of scribes -- House and man -- Art display and strategies of persuasion -- The vermilion walls of Faberius scriba