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De Architectura Libri Dece (Ten Books of Architecture)

(Italian, 1452–1519)
(Italian, active 1498–1549)
1521
Place of PublicationComo, Italy
Medium/TechniqueIllustrated book with 117 woodcuts
DimensionsOverall: 41 x 29 x 4.5 cm (16 1/8 x 11 7/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
Credit LineWilliam A. Sargent Fund
Accession number41.45
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsIllustrated books
Description
Como: Gottardo da Ponte, 1521
ProvenanceV.A.G.C. Villiers, Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park (born 1845); Philip Hofer, Cambridge, MA (1898-1984); Harvard College Library, from whom purchased by MFA, February 13, 1941.
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1530
Detail: folio 2v - "Virtue"
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
about 1520
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1517
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1570
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1512
La rappresentatione di S. Apollonia vergine, & martire
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
16th century
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1555
Papie Sanctuarium
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1505
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1508
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1540
Unidentified artist, Italian, 16th century
1522