Cours d'architecture qui comprend les ordres de Vignole : avec des commentaires, les figures & descriptions de ses plus beaux bâtimens, & de ceux de Michel-Ange ... & tout ce qui regarde l'art de bâtir : avec une ample explication par ordre alphabetique de tous les termes
A 1691 Paris architecture course by Augustin-Charles d'Aviler, presenting Vignola's five orders with commentary, plates of buildings by Vignola and Michelangelo, and an alphabetical glossary of building terms for architects and builders. The first picture is an ornate square frame of floral and foliate scrollwork around a central letter L, a decorative border a designer could adapt for initials or panels. The second is a frontispiece engraving of allegorical figures in a studio, with a woman holding a laurel wreath over a bearded artist, a child with a palette, and a dome and colonnade behind, suggesting classical arts imagery for title pages.
