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PICNOSTYLOS.
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PICNOSTYLOS
The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte.
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- The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte.
- Author
- Shute, John, d. 1563.
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- Imprinted at London :: In Fletestrete nere to Sainct Dunstans churche by Thomas Marshe,
- 1563.
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- Architecture -- Early works to 1800.
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"The first and chief groundes of architecture vsed in all the auncient and famous monymentes with a farther & more ample defense vppon the same, than hitherto hath been set out by any other. Published by Iohn Shute, paynter and archytecte." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A12159.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024.
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THe first & last order is that which Vitruuius, calleth Picnostylos whose height saieth he is .10 Diameters whose pillers standeth distant frō eche other a Diameter, & a halfe or .2. at ye fur¦dest & thus was it made in the tēple of Venus which piller is sembled or to be compared vnto Composita hauing in it the full beawtie of al the forsaide measures and garnish∣ments, for al excellent artificers, beawtifully to set furth whether it be in golde or siluer or other riche stone or fine woodes in marketrey or imbosinge or caruing as shalbe thought pleasaūt & necessary for noble & mighty prīces or for diuers other estates louers of excellency or cōninge.