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This book is an essay on architectural drawings of the Greek and Roman world. The first chapter is focused on the possibility that ancient treatises of architectures were endowed with drawings in order to make clear expositions which sometimes were not easily explainable only with words. Then the drawings which once clarified the treatise of Vitruvius are considered. The problem concerning the possible presence of drawings in post-Vitruvian architectural treatises is also discussed. The issue as to whether descriptive literary compositions sometimes contained illustrations as well is also examined. Then representations of architecture in Roman treatises on divisions of land (the so called gromatic treatises) are considered. The references to architectural drawings in literary and epigraphical testimonia are collected and a catalogue of the surviving Greek and Roman drawings of buildings or of parts of them is given. Thus this research offers all the basic data for the study of an important tool in the context of architecture in antiquity.

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Antonio Corso is currently Visiting Professor in the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Cyprus. He received his doctorate from the University of Padua and has held fellowships from, inter alia, the British Academy, the German Archaeological Institute and the Onassis Foundation. He is the author of 176 scientific works, including 13 books. His research focuses on ancient art criticism, ancient artists (in particular Praxiteles), architectural drawings and about the after-life of ancient art in the Byzantine world. He is a member of two field archaeology teams: at Tenea and at Kasta of Amphipolis.

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