Second Livre D'Architecture, Par Iacques Androuet du Cerceau. Contenant plusieurs & diverse ordonances de Cheminees, Lucarnes, Portes, Fonteines, Puis, & Pavillons, pour enrichir tant le dedans que le dehors de tous edifices. Avec les desseins de dix Sepultures toutes differentes.
RIBA, Early printed books, 1 (1994), 100; National Gallery (Washington), Mark J. Millard, I (1993), 6; Johns Hopkins University, The Fowler Architectural Collection (1961), no. 22, p.18-19. M.N. Rosenfeld, 'From drawn to printed model book: Jacques Androuet du Cerceau ...', in RACAR, 16 (1989), p.131-45; F. Bourdon, 'Les livres d'architecture de Jacques Androuet du Cerceau', in Les traités d'architecture de la Renaissance, ed. J. Guillaume (1988), p. 367-96.
Summary Note
Androuet du Cerceau's [Premier] Livre d'architecture had appeared in 1559; the Troisieme Livre was published in 1572.
All three are pattern books designed to propagate in France styles already favoured in Italy. The first offers plans and measurements for town houses; the second, examples of mantelpieces, dormers, doors, fountains, wells, pavilions and tombs; the third, designs for country houses and gardens.
In the dedication of this Second Livre Androuet announces a projected survey of royal and other buildings of France - which was eventually published as Le Premier [-Second] Volume des plus excellents bastiments de France (1576, 1579).
Reproductions
A facsimile of all three architecture books was published in 1965 (Ridgewood NJ).
Provenance
Recorded in RAA Library, Catalogue, 1802.
Binding Note
19th-century calf, upper and lower covers decorated in gilt; spine lettered 'Androuet Du Cerceau bastiments De France Vol. II Paris 1561 R.A.'
Subject
Architecture, French - France - History - 16th century - Renaissance
Designs - Pattern books - France - 16th century
Pictorial works - France - 16th century