Early Modern Netherlandish Artists on Proportion in Architecture, or ‘de questien der Simmetrien met redene der Geometrien’
Krista De Jonge
The question of geometrical and/or/<em>versus</em> arithmetical proportions remains unresolved insofar as Netherlandish Early Modern architectural production is concerned. A newly discovered manuscript book on the orders that can be attributed to a artist active in 1530s confirms need for less antithetical interpretation Renaissance proportional systems northern European architecture than has been common scholarship date. Beginning 1530s, way expressing both and was developed, connecting masters “antique” “modern” through one notation system understandable by all. This article traces its offshoots until seventeenth century.
Architectural Histories|Library Union Catalog of Bavaria, Berlin and Brandenburg (B3Kat Repository)|Lirias (KU Leuven)