![]() According to Vitruvius, architecture is an imitation of nature. Vitruvius is famous for asserting in his book De architectura that a structure must exhibit the three qualities of firmitas, utilitas, venustas - that is, it must be solid, useful, beautiful. This text “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).” The next major book on architecture, Alberti’s reformulation of Ten Books, was not written until 1452. ![]() ![]() This work is the only surviving major book on architecture from classical antiquity. Likely Vitruvius is referring to Marcus Agrippa’s campaign of public repairs and improvements. In the preface of Book I, Vitruvius dedicates his writings so to give personal knowledge of the quality of buildings to the emperor. He has been called the world’s first engineer to be known by name. 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. ![]() 15 BC, he was a Roman writer, architect and engineer, active in the 1st century BC.īy his own description Vitruvius served as a ballista (artilleryman), the third class of arms in the military offices. Marcus Vitruvius Pollio is the author of De architectura, known today as The Ten Books on Architecture, a treatise written of Latin and Greek on architecture, dedicated to the emperor Augustus.īorn c. ![]()
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