"Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other."
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Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, known simply as Vitruvius, was a Roman architect and engineer active in the 1st century BCE. Best known for his treatise "De Architectura," Vitruvius offered profound insights into architecture, engineering, and urban planning, emphasizing the importance of symmetry, proportion, and functionality—principles that continue to resonate in contemporary design. His work laid the foundation for Renaissance architecture and inspired countless architects, including Leon Battista Alberti and Andrea Palladio. Vitruvius’s legacy endures, reminding us of the harmony between beauty and utility in the built environment.
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"Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts."
Vitruvius"Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin."
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"For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space."
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