(ARCHITECTURE) Fréart de Chambray Roland Parallele de lArchi

Sale 2173 - Lot 151

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(ARCHITECTURE.) Fréart de Chambray, Roland. Parallele de l'Architecture Antique et de la Moderne. Avec un Recueil des Dix Principaux Autheurs Qui Ont Écrit des Cinq Ordres. 40 copperplate engravings by Charles Errard, depicting columns and lintels, façades, and decorative details. Folio, contemporary calf gilt, worn, needs repair; portrait title stained, most leaves with marginal restorations or reinforcements affecting some text, heavily on Liiii with loss to most of the top third of text, scattered foxing, marginalia, and other wear. sold as is. Paris: Edmé Martin, 1650

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first edition of Fréart''s famous comparative study which "launched the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns in architectural theory. His commentary identified sizable differences among the ''modern'' orders, despite the fact that all the Renaissance authors professed to follow the inviolable proportions of antiquity. Leaving his faith in the divine nature of proportion unquestioned, he attacked modern inventions and called for a return to the untainted forms of Greek classicism"--Avery 78; Fowler 127; Brunet I, 1762.