Architectur, nach antiquitetischer Lehr vnd geometrischer Ausstheilung, allen kunstreichen Handtwerckeren, Werckmeisteren, Goldtschmieden, Bildthäweren, Schreyneren, Steinmetzeren, Mähleren [et]c. vnd fort allen denen so sich des Circkels vnd Richtscheydts gebrauchen zu Nutz vnd Gefallen ins Kupffer geschnitten vnd an Tag geben

Kassmann, Rütger, 17th cent · 1659 · Gedruckt zu Cölln. Bey Gerhard Altzenbach in der Minnerbrüder Umbgang · 30 pictures

A 1659 architectural pattern book by Rütger Kassmann, printed at Cologne by Gerhard Altzenbach, offering geometrically laid-out architectural details and ornament for craftsmen such as goldsmiths, carpenters, stonemasons and painters. The plates are engraved sheets arranged like working drawings. A designer could draw from their dense scrolling cartouches, grotesque figures, caryatid-like supports, and geometric garden parterres and mazes for ornamental framing and historic decorative motifs.

Architecture -- Details -- Early works to 1800 · Decoration and ornament, Architectural -- Early works to 1800

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