Sebastiano Serlio

Details

Nationality

Italian

Notes

Death year approximate (c. 1554). His comparative plate of the five orders at the head of Book IV (1537) was decisive in canonising the five orders as a sequence. Existing sources require review: the 2026-dated reference entry is an unfilled placeholder and should be removed; the Bodleian source has no year. Canonical sources added: Book IV (Venice, 1537) and the Yale UP critical edition (1996).

Connections

• authored Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva (I sette libri dell'architettura)
• proposed The Five Orders
• influenced Andrea Palladio
• influenced Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola

Referenced by

• Vitruvius influenced
• Leon Battista Alberti influenced

Sources

1. Sebastiano Serlio. 2026.
2. Bodleian Libraries. Cabinet catalogue (on Serlio's five-orders plate). n.d..
3. Serlio, Sebastiano. Regole generali di architetura (Book IV — Le cinque maniere degli edifici). Francesco Marcolini, Venice, 1537.
4. Serlio, Sebastiano; Hart, Vaughan; Hicks, Peter (eds.). Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture (Books I–V of 'Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospettiva'). Yale University Press, 1996.