Il primo libro d'architettura di Sebastiano Serlio Bolognese. Il secondo libro di perspecttia di Sebastiano Serlio, Bolognese.
Medium
Printed book with woodblock illustrations
Classification
Books|Ornament & Architecture
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1937
Accession Number
37.56.2(1–2)
Art Historical Context
Step into the Renaissance world of architectural innovation with *Il primo libro d'architettura* andIl secondo libro di perspect* by Sebastiano Serlio, published in 1545. This exquisite printed book, featuring intricate woodblock illustrations, was a collaborative triumph involving the Bolognese architect Serlio, engraver Jean Barbé, Jean Martin, and the patronage of France's King François I.oused in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Drawings and Prints department, it a pivotal moment when architectural theory leaped from manuscripts into the hands of a wider audience. Serlio's treatises were ...