Serlio on domestic architecture / Sebastiano Serlio ; text by Myra Nan Rosenfeld ; foreword by Adolf K. Placzek ; introduction by James S. Ackerman.

Main entry:

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554.

Title & Author:

Serlio on domestic architecture / Sebastiano Serlio ; text by Myra Nan Rosenfeld ; foreword by Adolf K. Placzek ; introduction by James S. Ackerman.

Publication:

Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 1996.

Description:

81, [6] pages, 73 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm

Notes:
Slightly altered republication of: Sebastiano Serlio on domestic architecture. New York : Architectural History Foundation, c1978, in series: The architectural history foundation/MIT Press series ; 1.
Includes bibliographical references.
Biographical background: Serlio's Publications and buildings -- The history and evolution of On Domestic Architecture: Serlio's working method -- On Domestic Architecture and the development of the printed book in the renaissance: Serlio, Dürer and Pieter Coecke -- Social structure in Book VI: the historic and economic background -- Building types. Country dwellings ; City dwellings -- The theoretical significance of On Domestic Architecture: a comparison of the Avery and Munich Manuscripts -- Serlio's legacy.

Summary:

Sixth book of classic treatise by influential Italian Renaissance architect. Handbook of classical style comprises 76 superb plates -- with extensive editorial apparatus -- including elevations, floor plans, cutaway views and other images. Farmhouses, workers' dwellings, pavilions, fortresses, villas, palaces, houses for a king, etc. 173 illustrations. Introduction.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

0486293521 (pbk.)
9780486293523 (pbk.)

Subject:

Serlio, Sebastiano, (1475-1554?)
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture Early works to 1800.
Architecture.
Architecture Ouvrages avant 1800.
Architecture de la Renaissance.
ARCHITETTURA Trattati
ABITAZIONI Progetti Sec. 16.

Form/genre:

Treatises.
Early works.

Added entries:

Rosenfeld, Myra Nan.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208736
Call No.: NA44.S485.A74 1996
Copy: c. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main 208735
Call No.: NA44.S485.A74 1996
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

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