Chapiteau et Entablement Composite

Architectural plate from the Règles des cinq ordres d'architecture par Jacques Barozzio de Vignole avec l'ordre francois et un petit traite de la coupe des pierres, de charpente, de menuiserie, et serrurerie printed A Paris: Chez Jean, rue de Beauvais, [ca.1796].

Rare French edition of the most successful architectural textbook ever written. Giacomo Vignola’s Five Orders of Architecture was perhaps the most important 16th-century architects. Originally printed in 1562, Regola, as it is often called, was successful mainly due to its effectiveness in teaching. It was designed to aid builders and designers in the realization of their architectural projects. It focuses on all five of the major orders (or styles) of architecture Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Roman.

Pierre Jean (1754 - 1829) was a French engraver, publisher, print seller, and map maker active in Paris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Jean entered the engraving and printing business on June 7 of 1784 when he married the daughter of Louis-Joseph Mondhare, a prominent French engraver, print seller and map publisher. Mondhare changed the name of his firm to Mondhare & Jean. Under Mondhare, for about 12 years, Jean mastered the in-and-outs of the engraving and map publishing business. Mondhare retired in 1796, leaving Jean his business and printing plates. Jean subsequently continued to publish on his own account, as Chez Jean, from the old Mondhare & Jean offices at 32 Rue Saint-Jean de Beauvais.

Copperplate, printed on contemporary laid paper, in good condition.

Bibliografia

cf. F. Govi, I classici che hanno fatto l'Italia. Per un nuovo canone bio-bibliografico degli autori italiani, n. 107; Cicognara 417.