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Engraving Proportions of the Ionic volute
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This engraving is one of the 64 plates illustrating Vitruvius's *Ten Books on Architecture*, translated by Claude Perrault in 1673. The work, one of the few treatises on ancient architecture to have survived to the present day, was commissioned by Colbert for the Academy of Sciences, which he had founded...
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This engraving is one of the 64 plates illustrating Vitruvius's *Ten Books on Architecture*, translated by Claude Perrault in 1673. The work, one of the few treatises on ancient architecture to have survived to the present day, was commissioned by Colbert for the Academy of Sciences, which he had founded seven years earlier, in 1666.
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