Juan Bautista Villalpando's Ezechielem Explanationes: A Sixteenth-century Architectural Text - Tapa dura

"... Villalpando's work is a reconstruction of both a physical temple and a tarnished faith.... Morrison's commentary on Villalpando's work uncovers this and other often contradictory but relentlessly clever ways in which the Jesuit Villalpando adopted and refined some ideas from his era while critically rejecting others." - Prof. Michael J. Ostwald University of Newcastle "Villalpando's work is at once devotional and architectural, and in itself constitutes social and anthropological windows upon Spanish and Mediterranean world history." - Prof. Neil Morpeth University of New Castle"

This is the first translation into English of Juan Bautista Villalpando's "Book Five of In Ezechielem Explanationes et Apparatus Vrbis Templi Hierosolymitani". After its publication in 1604 the work stimulated a debate - over not only the architecture of Solomon's Temple but on the very nature of the origins of architecture - that endured for more than one hundred and fifty years, in the form of commentaries and other reconstructions.