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Vitruvius

A portrait of an individual with long, wavy gray hair and a full beard, wearing a red garment over a brown tunic, symbolizing the historical figure Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, a Roman architect and military engineer from the first century BCE.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio was a Roman architect and military engineer active in the first century BCE, best known for De Architectura, a ten-book treatise on building dedicated to Augustus. It is the only architectural work to survive from classical antiquity. Vitruvius described concrete recipes, water supply, town planning, and machines, and his book shaped European architecture again when it was rediscovered in 1414.

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