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Qvinto libro d'architettvra : nel quale se tratta de diuerse forme de tempij sacri secondo il costume christiano & al modo antico

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554 · 1547 · A Paris : De l'Imprimerie de Michel de Vascosan · 18 pictures

Fifth book of architecture by Sebastiano Serlio, printed in Paris in 1547 by Michel de Vascosan, treating sacred church designs in Christian and ancient manners for builders and scholars. The woodcut pictures are plain architectural drawings: sections, elevations and a ground plan of churches, with hatched shading that shows vaults, domes and the depth of walls, a useful reference for classical structure and proportion.

Church architecture

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