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

Vues d'optique

1551

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

• theoretical drawings

Etching with engraving

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

DR1990:0048:001-023

• renderings

• perspective drawings

- 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.

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"

• architecture

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