[THE "MOST COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPT OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY IN THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE SPHERE"] Der auserleßneste und nach den Regeln der antiquen Bau-Kunst sowohl, als nach dem heutigen Gusto verneuerte Goldmann, als der rechtschaffenste Bau-Meister, oder die gantze Civil-Bau-Kunst, in unterschiedlichen vollständigen Anweisungen (.) abgehandelt [The most elaborate and according to the rules of the ancient art of building as well as according to today's taste renewed Goldmann, as the most righteous building master, or the whole civil architecture art, treated in different complete instructions (.)]. 16 parts and 5 (of 6) supplements, together 21 parts in 4 volumes

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Augsburg: printed by Peter Detleffsen for Jeremias Wolff, 1716-1760. Folio (34 × 22 cm). Half leather bindings of the early nineteenth century with labels and gilt to spines; [20] (index); 32; [68]; 18; 18; 16; 12; [16]; 39, [1]; 26; 24; 18; 42; 10; 8; 84, [4]; [20]; 18; 28; [4], 35, [1]; [6], 66; 144 pp. With 1 engraved frontispiece, 1 engraved title, 407 (59 folded or double-page) copper engraved plates, 2 copper engravings mounted in the text and several woodcuts. A very good set; impeccably clean leaves except for a small, barely visible restored tear at the edge of one copper plate, and a narrow, very faint waterstain on a handful of text pages in the first volume; bindings with minor traces of wear. The complete "Civil-Bau-Kunst" (Art of Civil Architecture), save for one supplement, a crucial standard work on Baroque architecture, considered the "most comprehensive conception of architectural theory in the German-speaking sphere" (Henning Repetzky, AKL CVII, p. 9). Bound in four volumes, our copy lacks only supplement a ("Prodromus Architecturae") - which is also not listed by Millard. Available here is a compilation of different editions, as the individual parts were often also distributed separately. Even though this extensive collection of texts and copper engravings on the most diverse fields of Baroque building bears the name of Nikolaus Goldmann (1611-1665) in its title and also has its starting point in the edition of the bequeathed architectural writings of the mathematician, jurist, and architectural theorist, the sixteen parts must be regarded as the work of the mathematician and architect Leonhard Christoph Sturm (1669-1719) due to the additions and extensions. As is evident from their lifespans, Goldmann and Sturm did not meet; rather, the literary estate of the lecturer, who died in Leiden, came into the hands of the professor and master builder who worked in Jena, Leipzig, Wolfenbüttel, and Frankfurt/Oder, among other places, through a series of coincidental links (cf. Max Semrau, Zu Nikolaus Goldmanns Leben und Schriften, in: Monatshefte für Kunstwissenschaft, 1916, vol. 9, no. 10, pp. 349-361). While individual parts appeared during Sturm's lifetime, the full compilation was assembled and printed only after his death. (Edzard Rust, Theorie und Praxis. Leonhard Christoph Sturms Schriften ., Wiener Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte, 55/56, 2006/07, pp. 507-527). For many decades after Sturm's death, the compendium remained a standard work that could be found in numerous castle and monastery libraries as well as in the possession of various scholars and German-speaking architects (cf. Rust). The overview that the work provides of the most diverse areas of architecture is enormous. It is not only the classical order of columns that is comprehensively presented in words and pictures. The arc that this work spans - from church and palace construction to country houses, town houses, prisons, hospitals, theaters, administrative buildings, epitaphs, gates of honor, gardens, harbor buildings, locks, bridges, barracks, fortifications, water pipes, and even the complicated mechanisms of ornamental fountains and water mills etc. - could scarcely be wider. However, Sturm not only goes into breadth, but also into depth. In the section on palace construction, for example, Sturm explains the ceremonial necessities that led to the layout and sequence of rooms. We learn, for instance, how large a parade bed that is not actually used must be and how much space the hidden, actually used bedchamber should take up.The architectural differences between Protestant and Catholic church buildings, which are derived from liturgical differences, are also discussed in detail. In this way, Sturm's compendium is not only an architectural-historical source, but also a cultural-historical one that provides insight into the practices of the time. For example, the remarks on Protestant church building reveal the importance that Lutherans still at.

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• Titre: [THE "MOST COMPREHENSIVE CONCEPT OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY IN THE GERMAN-LANGUAGE SPHERE"] Der auserleßneste und nach den Regeln der antiquen Bau-Kunst sowohl, als nach dem heutigen Gusto verneuerte Goldmann, als der rechtschaffenste Bau-Meister, oder die gantze Civil-Bau-Kunst, in unterschiedlichen vollständigen Anweisungen (.) abgehandelt [The most elaborate and according to the rules of the ancient art of building as well as according to today's taste renewed Goldmann, as the most righteous ...
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