Theorist

Sebastiano Serlio

1475–1554 Renaissance classicism

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Details

Nationality: Italian

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

Sebastiano Serlio. 2026.
Bodleian Libraries. Cabinet catalogue (on Serlio's five-orders plate). n.d..
Serlio, Sebastiano. Regole generali di architetura (Book IV — Le cinque maniere degli edifici). Francesco Marcolini, Venice, 1537.
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.

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Sebastiano Serlio." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/sebastiano-serlio/. Accessed September 1, 2026.