Sebastiano Serlio on domestic architecture : different dwellings from the meanest hovel to the most ornate palace : the sixteenth-century manuscript of book VI in the Avery Library of Columbia University / foreword by Adolf K. Placzek ; introd. by James S. Ackerman ; text by Myra Nan Rosenfeld.

Sebastiano Serlio on domestic architecture : different dwellings from the meanest hovel to the most ornate palace : the sixteenth-century manuscript of book VI in the Avery Library of Columbia University /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554
Other Authors: Rosenfeld, Myra Nan, Placzek, Adolf K., Ackerman, James S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Italian
Published: New York : Cambridge, Mass. : Architectural History Foundation ; MIT Press, [1978]
Series:Architectural History Foundation/MIT Press series ; v. 1.
Subjects:
Serlio, Sebastiano, > 1475-1554. > Tutte l'opere d'architettura.
Architecture, Domestic > Early works to 1800.
Architecture > Early works to 1800.
Manuscripts, Italian > Facsimiles.
Table of Contents:
  • Essays include: I. Biographical background: Serlio's publications and buildings.
  • II. The history and evolution of On Domestic Architecture: Serlio's working method.
  • III. On Domestic Architecture and the development of the printed book in the Renaissance: Serlio, Dürer and Pieter Coeke.
  • IV. Social structure in Book VI: The historic and economic background.
  • V. Building types.
  • VI. The theoretical significance of On Domestic Architecture: a comparison of the Avery and Munich manuscripts.
  • VII. Serlio's legacy.

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