Sebastiano Serlio, Architect
Book
Hardback
430 pages
978-0-521-80162-1 (ISBN)
Description
Known primarily for one of the most widely used architectural treatises of the early modern period, Sebastiano Serlio was also an architect of some renown in his own day. This book explores his works and career. Examining his formation in Italy, first in Bologna and then in Rome, Sabina Frommel focuses principally on Serlio's career in France, where through works such as the residence of Ippolito D'Este in Fontainbleau and the Castle of Ancy-le-Franc, he had a profound impact on French architecture. She traces his development from the classicizing manner of his early career to his later works, where he participates in the capricious tastes that were common in both Italy and France during the mid-sixteenth century.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
382 Halftones, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 280 mm
Width: 250 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-521-80162-1 (9780521801621)
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Content
1. Serlio's life; 2. From perspective painter to architect: Serlio's artistic development from the beginning of his career down to 1541; 3. Serlio's buildings and projects in France; 4. Ancy-le-Franc: the patron; 5. Ancy-le-Franc: the history of the building; 6. Ancy-le-Franc: the original building and its planning; 7. Ancy-le-Franc: the exterior; 8. Ancy-le-Franc: the cour d'honneur; 9. Ancy-le-Franc: the interior arrangement and original function of the rooms; 10. Ancy-le-Franc: the decoration of the rooms; 11. Ancy-le-Franc: typology; 12. The Grand Ferrare at Fontainebleau; 13. Fontaine-Chaalis; 14. Fontainebleu; 15. The Louvre; 16. The Chapel of Saint-Eloi des Orfevres; 17. Buildings and projects for Cardinal de Tournon; 18. Projects for the Dinteville brothers; 19. The years in Lyons; 20. The fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth books and the Libro Staordinario: Serlio's stylistic development 1541-1552; 21. Theory and practice; 22. Serlio and Lescot.