Architectvra von Ausstheilung, Symmetria vnd Proportion der fünff Seulen : vnd aller darauss volgender Kunst Arbeit von Fenstern, Caminen, Thürgerichten, Portalen, Bronnen vnd Epitaphien ...
A 1598 architectural pattern book by Wendel Dietterlin, published in Nuremberg for builders, craftsmen and designers, setting out the five orders of columns and their use in windows, fireplaces, doorways, portals, fountains and epitaphs. The pictures are dense engraved elevations of Mannerist doorways and portals, crowded with broken pediments, volutes, carved figures, herms and heraldic cartouches, offering a designer ready-made ornamental frameworks and decorative vocabulary.





















