Sebastiani Serlii Bononiensis De architectvra libri qvinqve ... : necnon extraordinarius quinquaginta portarum libellus in operis calce adiunctus hic demum conspicitur.

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554 · 1569 · Venetiis, Apud Franciscum de Franciscis Senensem, & Joannem Chriegher · 35 pictures

Serlio's Five Books of Architecture, printed in Venice in 1569 by Francesco de' Franceschi and Giovanni Criegher, is a Renaissance architectural treatise for builders and students of classical design. Its woodcut plates show doorways, rustications and plans, with the Doric and Tuscan orders drawn in line for working architects to copy and adapt.

Architecture · Architecture -- Early works to 1800

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