Vues d'optique

People:

Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau (designer)
Unknown, France, mid 16th century (engraver (printmaker))
Unknown, France, mid 16th century (etcher)

Title:

Vues d'optique

Date:

1551

Description:

- Set of 22 prints by Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, showing imaginary architectural settings demonstrating the use of linear perspective.

Form:
textual records
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
23 print(s) and manuscript(s)

Stage and Purpose:

theoretical drawings

Technique and media:

Etching with engraving

Dimensions:

plate marks (oval): 17,5 x 16,5 cm sheet (smallest): 20,4 x 20,1 cm sheet (largest): 30 x 22,2 cm

Reference number:

DR1990:0048:001-023

Drawing Type:

renderings

Method of Projection:

perspective drawings

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Group of 22 mounted prints and 1 manuscript, the latter a French translation by Vivinel of the Latin inscription on the frontispiece, DR1990:0048:001. The manuscript is the last object of the group. DR1990:0048:010 is mounted on a secondary support of laid paper.

Inscription:

inscribed - on DR1990:0048:0023, by Vivinel, in pen and black ink, throughout: with a translation of the inscription on the frontispiece, DR1990:0048:001 inscribed - by a modern hand, in graphite, on most sheets, l.l.: with dimensions of plate marks in millmeters imprinted - on DR1990:0048:001, l.c.: "IACOBUS ANDROVETIVS DV CERCEAV. LECTORIBVS. S. / ...PERFECTA SVO TEMPORE OFFRRE STATVI. VALE. AVRELIAE. / 1551"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

courtyards
ruins
stairs
gateways
towers (building divisions)
bridges (built works)
arcades
towers (single built works)
porticos
theoretical architecture
architectural orders
linear perspective
passages
Renaissance

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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