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Sebastiano Serlio (6 September 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau.
Sebastiano Serlio, Italian Mannerist architect, painter, and theorist who wrote the influential architecture treatise ‘Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective.’ Although Serlio’s buildings were not influential, his publication exerted immense influence throughout Europe.
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Nov 17, 2020 · Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554 CE) was an Italian Renaissance architect, painter, and scholar. His most successful building design is the classically-inspired Château d'Ancy-le-Franc in France. Serlio's lifetime of scholarship came together in his Seven Books on Architecture, a hugely influential
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Inspired by the often eccentric designs of contemporary Mannerist architecture, Serlio combined rough elements with the more traditional treatment of the Doric order to stress the difference between nature and artifice.
The Five Orders of Architecture: Sebastiano Serlio (1537/1611) The key work of classical architecture was Vitruvius ’ De architectura, which systematized architecture based on the Five Orders, and led to a more scholarly interest in the architectural remains of the Greeks and Romans.
Overview. Secondary Titles. Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings. Provenance. Catalogue Raisonné. Title: Serlio's five books on architecture. Author: Sebastiano Serlio (Italian, Bologna 1475–1554 Fontainebleau) Publisher: Published Antwerp by Pieter Coecke van Aelst (Netherlandish, Aelst 1502–1550 Brussels)
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Jun 27, 2018 · Serlio, Sebastiano (1475–1554). Italian architect, theorist, and painter. He is remembered primarily as the compiler of L'Architettura (published in instalments (1537–75) and collected in one volume in 1584).