Oevvre de la diversite des termes, dont on vse en archítecture
Oevvre de la diversite des termes is a 1572 Lyon pattern book by the French architect Hugues Sambin, published by Jean Durant for craftsmen and architects working in the Renaissance French tradition. Its pictures are numbered engravings of terms, figural pillars with carved heads and bodies that rise from pedestals, each shown whole on a plain page. A designer can take from them a catalogue of structural figure supports and their proportions, from draped women to fruit-garlanded and mask-covered forms.
