Elementi d' architettura civile per uso degli alunni dell' Imperiale e Reale Accademia delle belle arti di Firenze
An 1818 Florentine architecture textbook by Giuseppe Vannini, published by G. Pagani for students at the Imperial and Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. Its plates are engraved measured drawings of columns, arches, entablatures, cornices and pedestals, drawn flat in elevation and section with dimension lines and lettered keys. A designer can take from them the clean proportional logic of classical orders, the Corinthian capital profiles, and the stepped mouldings that suit line-based ornament or architectural diagrams.
