Parallele De L'Architecture Antique Et De La Moderne: Avec Un Recueil Des Dix Principaux Autheurs qui ont écrit des cinq Ordres; Sçavoir, Palladio Et Scamozzi, Serlio Et Vignola, D. Barbaro Cataneo, L. B. Alberti Et Viola, Bullant Et De Lorme. comparez entre eux. Les trois ordres Grecs, le Dorique, l'Ionique & le Corintien, font la premiere partie de ce Traitté: Et les deux Latins, le Toscan & le Composite, en font la derniere.
[Add. t.pl., t.p., dedic.] - Privilege Du Roy - [Text] - Etymologie ou explication de quelques termes ... .
Responsibility Note
The author is named on the added engraved title-plate: 'Par Roland Freart, Sr. De Chambray'.
This added title-plate is signed as engraved by Tournier. No illustration is signed, except that on p.63, which incorporates the letter 'T' (sc. Tournier?).
The work is dedicated to 'Mes Tres-Chers Freres Iean Freart ... de Chantelou ... Et Paul Freart ... De Chantelou'.
The added engraved title-plate includes a portrait captioned 'A la tres-heureuse Memoire de Monseigneur de Noyers Baron de Dangu... '.
References
National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard, I (1993), 76; Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 127, p.109-110.
Summary Note
The variant title on the added engraved title-plate reads, 'Parallele De Larchitecture Antique Avec La Moderne'.
The dedicatory epistle contains an account of the career of Freart de Chambray's cousin, François Sublet de Noyers.
An English translation, A Parallel of the antient architecture with the modern, was published in 1764.
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Copy Note
Inscribed in ink on front endpaper, 'This Vol Contains 1 Freart Parallele d'Architecture 2 De Vinci Traitte de la Peinture 3 The Same in Italian - The original Edit 4 Alberti della Pittura e Statua'; and in pencil, 'Pour mon cher Patron Monsieur Stella.'
Binding Note
20th-century calf; gilt-decorated spine, lettered, 'Freart Parallele De LArchitecture'. Bound with Traitté De La Peinture De Leonard De Vinci (1651) and Trattato Della Pittura Di Lionardo Da Vinci (1651).
Subject
Architecture - Architectural orders - Europe - France - History
Treatises - France - 17th century
Pictorial works - France - 17th century