QA160 - Solomon’s Temple by Villalpando, 1604
Fig. 160 (p. 213) - A reconstructed plan of Solomon’s Temple by the Cordoba-born Jesuit Juan Batista Villalpando in his book ‘In Ezechielem explanationes’ (volume II, 1604). The massive, three-parted book was written in Rome and sponsored by King Philip II of Spain. The plan was accepted as a proper representation of the historical Temple up to the nineteenth century.
The popularity of the plan was enhanced by its occurrence in the ‘Biblia Polygotta’ (1657). This famous work by Christopher Plantin (1514 – 1569) was an eight-volume polyglot Bible in Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syrica, with text in parallel columns. The ‘Biblia Polyglotta’ gave Plantin little profit, but the Holy See and King Philip II of Spain designated him as official printer of liturgical books for Spain and the Netherlands in 1579.
JETTER, Dieter (1987). Santiago, Toledo, Granada. Drei Spanische Kreuz-hallenspitäler und ihr Nachhall in aller Welt. Geschichte des Hospitals. Band 6. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart.
ISBN 3-515-04323 Also as fig. 133 in:
KRUFT, Hanno-Walter (1985/1994). A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present. Zwemmer/Princeton Architectural Press, New York. ISBN 0 0302 00603 6
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QA160 - Solomon’s Temple by Villalpando, 1604
Fig. 160 (p. 213) - A reconstructed plan of Solomon’s Temple by the Cordoba-born Jesuit Juan Batista Villalpando in his book ‘In Ezechielem explanationes’ (volume II, 1604). The massive, three-parted book was written in Rome and sponsored by King Philip II of Spain. The plan was accepted as a proper representation of the historical Temple up to the nineteenth century.
The popularity of the plan was enhanced by its occurrence in the ‘Biblia Polygotta’ (1657). This famous work by Christopher Plantin (1514 – 1569) was an eight-volume polyglot Bible in Aramaic, Greek, Hebrew, Latin, and Syrica, with text in parallel columns. The ‘Biblia Polyglotta’ gave Plantin little profit, but the Holy See and King Philip II of Spain designated him as official printer of liturgical books for Spain and the Netherlands in 1579.
JETTER, Dieter (1987). Santiago, Toledo, Granada. Drei Spanische Kreuz-hallenspitäler und ihr Nachhall in aller Welt. Geschichte des Hospitals. Band 6. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden GmbH, Stuttgart.
ISBN 3-515-04323 Also as fig. 133 in:
KRUFT, Hanno-Walter (1985/1994). A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present. Zwemmer/Princeton Architectural Press, New York. ISBN 0 0302 00603 6
quadralectics.wordpress.com/3-contemplation/3-2-temples/3...