Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura: Regola delli cinque Ordini d'Architettura di M. Jac. Barozzio da Vignola. In Bologna, per Lelio dalla Volpe con lic. de' Sup., 1769. Barozzio da Vignola

Bologna: Lelio dalla Volpe, 1769. Giacomo Barozzio da Vignola - Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura - 1769
Regola delli cinque Ordini d'Architettura di M. Jac. Barozzio da Vignola.
In Bologna, per Lelio dalla Volpe con lic. de' Sup., 1769.
Barozzio da Vignola


Il Vignola: The most printed treatise on architecture (still today)
"Rule of the Five Orders of Architecture", one of the most influential and widespread architectural treatises of all time. Complete with 36 etchings, plus the title on the title page in an architectural frame, signed by Pio Panfilj, a well-known painter, engraver and decorator, Bolognese by adoption.
Beautiful and rare eighteenth-century edition.


Complete copy of all plates of this important work which was reprinted several times during the 18th century. See Canterzani, p. 75, n° 12 "Rare edition on good paper, and with etching carvings executed with diligence by Quadri".

In fact, the publisher commissioned this work for the first time from Lodovico Quadri who in 1736 transformed it into a more streamlined format than the previous editions. The etchings are by Pio Panfilj, a well-known painter, engraver and decorator from the Marches, Bolognese by adoption, an important collaborator of the typography. The 36 full-page engravings are described on the recto of the following plate in italics. Entirely engraved title page, signed in the plate on the lower outer side.

Vigòla, Iacopo Barozzi (or Barozio) known as the Architect (Vignola 1507 - Rome 1573). He was perhaps the best known and most representative architect of the late Renaissance. A central figure in the Mannerist phase of architecture, V. was characterized by his innovative way of composing and modulating masses through the application of architectural orders. He was active above all in Rome, where the villa of Pope Julius III (or Etruscan Museum) is certainly his main palace, and in Lazio. His activity as a treatise writer was also important, which had a very wide diffusion in the following periods. More important is the meaning of the Rule of the five orders of architecture (1562), in which V., stripping the rules of what could be abstruse, manages to establish a few relationships, clear and easily applicable, admitting that, respecting the perspective , decorations can be increased or decreased, rules that had to be fully applied in Baroque architecture.

He was one of the best-known exponents of Mannerism, in an era of important changes of which he was the protagonist and architect. His primacy in architectural culture is due both to the creation of buildings of great elegance and to his work as a treatise writer, above all for having defined the concept of architectural order with extreme clarity in his famous "Rule of the five orders of architecture", one of the most influential and widespread architectural treatises of all time.

He is considered by many to be the most important architect active in Rome in the Mannerist era. The first edition was printed in 1562. It is believed that the origin of this treatise is to be found in the studies and drawings, now lost, which he carried out in Rome for the Vitruvian Academy of Virtue.


Coeval half parchment binding plates reinforced with coeval publisher's cardboard Pp. (2) + 76 + (2). 37 Plates (including the architectural frontispiece) engraved on copper and signed (on the front) "Pio Panfilj 1769". Text in italics on the side of the plates some ancient manuscript halos with the last white print on strong paper. At the end of the volume the inscription "FINE Delli V. Ordini d'Architett. By M. Giac. Barozzio da Vignola.

82 pp
18,3 x 13,2 cm.