ID: 901002021 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002021	Record Type: Literature

	De Architectura (treatise, Vitruvius, 1st century BCE)

Note: Treatise written in Latin on the topic of architecture. Noted for the Vitruvian virtues or the Vitruvian Triad, by which a structure must exhibit firmitas, utilitas, venustas, meaning it must be solid, useful, beautiful.

Display Date: 1st century BCE

Names:

	De Architectura (treatise, Vitruvius, 1st century BCE) (preferred,Latin-P,D)
	De Architectura (treatise, Vitruvius, 1st century BCE) (English-P,D,P)
	Ten Books on Architecture (treatise, Vitruvius, 1st century BCE) (English,U,P)

Hierarchical Position:

		Literature and Performing Arts (P)
		....<Named written and performed works> (P)
		........<Literary works: History, Biographies> (P)
		............De Architectura (treatise, Vitruvius, 1st century BCE) (P)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... treatise
	.....(genres for literature, genres in literature and performing arts, concepts in the arts and humanities, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	topic is .... architecture (discipline)
	.....(visual arts (discipline), arts (broad discipline), arts and related disciplines, humanities, disciplines (concept), Disciplines (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	author is .... Marcus Vitruvius Pollio (Roman author, engineer, and architect, 1st century BCE)
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

Sources:

	De Architectura (treatise, Vitruvius, 1st century BCE)
	................Museum of Fine Arts, Boston [online] (2003-)
	................Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-)
	Ten Books on Architecture (treatise, Vitruvius, 1st century BCE)
	................Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Harvard Art Museums [online] (2000-)