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Vitruvian, a.|vɪˈtruːvɪən|
[f. the name of M. Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and writer on architecture (c 10 b.c.).]
Of, relating to, or in the style of Vitruvius.
1762H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1765) I. 116 Our buildings must be as Vitruvian, as writings in the days of Erasmus were obliged to be Ciceronian. 1835R. Willis Archit. Mid. Ages ii. 23 note, The later [Alberti] published the first treatise on the Vitruvian architecture, in 1485. 1893Symonds Michelangelo xiii. II. 217 Church, cupola, and spires are built up by a succession of Vitruvian temples.
b. Vitruvian scroll, a convoluted scroll-pattern employed as an architectural ornament.
1837Antiq. Athens 19 A sort of thatch of laurel leaves, surrounded by an ornamental edge, usually termed a Vitruvian scroll. 1886G. Schumacher Across the Jordan iii. 173 A lintel-stone..which is..ornamented with the seven-branched candlestick and a sort of vitruvian scroll.
Hence Viˈtruvianism, the style or principles of architecture favoured by Vitruvius.
1859Jephson Brittany viii. 115 Going straight from the debased flamboyant or perpendicular to Vitruvianism. |