XVIIth Print By Hondius: Ionica Odor

Ionic order or smell Plate after Jan (or Hans) Vredeman de Vries (1526-vers 1609) from the following: "The Five Rows of Architecture, to know: tuscany, doric, ionic, corinthia, and composed, with the fundamental instruction, made by Henricus Hondius. Amstredam [sic], Jean Jeansson ". Vredeman de Vries (1526-c. 1609) Flemish painter, occupied an essential place in Flemish Renaissance architecture, in particular for his ideas and his theories on perspective which he disseminated through his publications. Each of the orders is enriched with an allegory of one of the five senses. Between 1617 and 1620 Hollstein: 161 Copper width: 332 Copper height: 237 Sheet width: 360 Sheet height: 270