老普林尼在《博物志》的34卷(冶金),35卷(矿物),36卷(石头)分别记录了青铜雕刻、绘画,大理石雕刻和建筑这几类艺术的信息。这些内容在中世纪并没有引起人们的兴趣,吸引他们的是医药,动物和植物部分的内容,它们被摘录于各种文献。直到文艺复兴早期,彼特拉克把这部分内容连同维特鲁威的《建筑十书》一起作为自己研究古代艺术和建筑 Old Pliny recorded the art of Bronze sculpture, painting, marble sculpture and architecture in Volume 34 (Metallurgy), Volume 35 (Minerals), Volume 36 (Stone). These contents did not attract people’s interest in the Middle Ages, they were attracted to the contents of the medicinal, animal and plant parts and they were excerpted in various documents. It was not until the early Renaissance that Petrarch, as part of his study of ancient art and architecture, along with Vitruvius’s Ten Books of Architecture,