Giacomo vignola biography

Villa Farnese, Caprarola
Near Rome (c)

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Vignola's Architecture

One of the greatest architects of the Mannerism era, (although his late work also anticipated elements of Baroque architecture) Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola was inspired by the Roman architect Vitruvius, and by his own early studies and architectural drawings of Classical buildings in Rome, and at Fontainebleau near Paris.

He is noted, in particular, for his treatise "Rules of the Five Orders of Architecture" (Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura), published in , which explained his method for constructing columns using the proportions of the four main classical orders (Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian).

It remains one of the most theoretically important works in the history of architecture. His second theoretical work "Two Rules of Practical Perspective" () (Due reg