Background
Serlio was born on September 6, 1475 in Bologna, Italy.
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Five rare volumes comprise influential link between classical architectural theory and Renaissance architecture reproduced in one inexpensive volume. Serlio establishes the importance of geometry and perspective and provides practical information on terrain, materials, antique and Renaissance structures St. Peter's in Rome, Colosseum, Pantheon and theaters. Over 300 illustrations.
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( Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) was the most important ar...)
Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century; despite this, his writings have been virtually inaccessible until now. This translation of Serlios five-volume treatise?he died before publishing two further volumes?replaces the only other English version, one that was produced in 1611 from an inaccurate Dutch translation of the Italian original. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, working directly from Serlios own corrected editions, here provide new access to his highly influential treatise. Serlio introduced northern Europe to the principles of classical design. When Christopher Wren was building St. Pauls Cathedral and when John Wood designed the streets of Bath, for example, both architects had Serlios books on hand. Serlio begins with the rules of geometry and perspective, and continues with a description of the ornamental splendor of the baths, temples, arches, and palaces of ancient Rome. He includes advice on how to incorporate classical features into interior designs. In an innovative discussion of Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian columns, to which he added Composite, Serlio established a canon of Five Orders that held authority for over a century. He illustrates the use of these orders in twelve temple designs. Serlios attempt to codify the rules of a design language that utilized tradition while facilitating invention mirrors similar efforts by architects in the twentieth century to establish an architectural order through rules governing proportion and form. Serlios beautiful woodcut illustrations are reproduced in this edition, which also includes a thorough introduction, commentary, and glossary of terms.
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Serlio was born on September 6, 1475 in Bologna, Italy.
Serlio's artistic training began in his father's studio, and later he studied with Baldassare Peruzzi in Rome and traveled extensively.
Serlio is remembered primarily as the compiler of L'Architettura (published in instalments (1537-1575) and collected in one volume in 1584).
L'Architettura was an enormously important treatise, not only in terms of Renaissance theory, but because it was a useful tome for architects, essentially because of its excellent illustrations and the fact that it was in a modern language.
While in Venice he may have designed a few buildings.
His Grand Ferrare, the house for the Papal Legate to France at Fontainebleau (1541-1548 - mostly destroyed), was an important prototype of the hôtel (town-house) in France for the next century, while his château of Ancy-le-Franc in Burgundy (1541-1550), with its corner towers and central court, shows the influence of Maiano.
Serlio was associated with Pierre Lescot (c. 1510-1578) in the building of the Louvre and was appointed architect at the Palace of Fontainebleau by Francis I.
Serlio is best known for three permanent stage settings, described in a highly influential work called Opere di architettura (1537-1544).
( Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) was the most important ar...)
( Five rare volumes comprise influential link between cla...)