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Libro estraordinario di Sebastiano Serlio bolognese : nel quale si dimostrano trenta porte di opera rustica, mista con diuersi ordini, & uenti di opera dilicata di diuerse specie : con la scrittura dauanti, che narra il tutto

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554 · 1566 · In Venetia : Appresso Francesco [de' Francheschi] senese & Zuane Krùger alemano compagni · 53 pictures

Serlio's 1566 Venetian edition of his book of thirty rustic and twenty delicate doorway designs, published in Venice by Francesco Senese and Zuane Krüger for architects and builders. The four pictures show engraved classical doorways with pedimented tops, arches, paired columns and rusticated or banded stonework, drawn flat in elevation with no shading, a template for designers planning portals, gateways and frames.

Doorways

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