Note 96 — Chapter V · Progress of the Arts in the Middle Ages.

The plan which he has given, fol. 14, he has entitled “Ichnographia Fundamenti sacræ Ædis baricephalæ, Germanico more, à Trigono ac Pariquadrato perstructa, uti etiam ea quæ nunc Milani videtur.” The work of Cesariano was translated into German by Gualter Rivius, and published at Nuremberg, in 1548, under the title of Vitruvius Teutsch, with copies of the Italian diagrams. A few years ago, in an article in the Wiener Jahrbücher (Oct.–Dec., 1821), the reviewer maintained, on the authority of the diagrams in Rivius’s book, that Gothic architecture had its origin in Germany and not in England.