MASTERPIECE OF ARCHITECTURE

Il terzo Libro di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese, nel qual si figvrano, e descrivono le antiqvita di Roma, e le Altre che so, no in Italia, e fvori d´Italia. (At the Colophon: Impresso in Venecia per Francesco Marcelino da Forli. MDXXXX. Del mese di Marzo.) 1540.

Exceptional and practically inhalable. Folio (32.8 x 23.5 cm / 12.91 x 9.25 in), CLVI pp., (Includes Cover, a little dirty, with a small stain in its lower corner). Text with capitular letters and numerous interleaved woodcuts and full page. Beautifully engraved colophon. Rear morocco binding, with parchment spine and ends. Good copy. Second edition, published the month after the first.

Serlio analyzes here the iconography, the plan, the elevation and the scenography of the most important buildings in Rome. This book is particularly important, and its design -combining texts and images- was the model that was later adopted, a faithful example being the work of Andrea Palladio: I quattro libri dell´architettura, published in 1570.

Bound with:

Regole Generali di Architettura di Sabastiano Serlio Bolognese on the Cinque Maniere of Gliedifici Cioe, Thoscano, Dorico, Ionico Corintio; e Composito, with Gliessempi de L´antiquita, che per la Maggior Part Concordano with the doctrina di Vitruvio. M. D. XXXX. In Venice By Francesco Marcelino da Forli. With nuove additioni. (On the verso: Libro Quarto di Architettura di M. Sabastiano Serlio. Bolognese.)

On Folio, LXXVI sheets. With capitular letters and woodcuts interspersed in the text and on the full page. Second edition.

Considered one of the most important works of architecture since its original edition, it was a mandatory consultation among peers. Sebastiano Serlio (1475 - 1554) dealt with Mannerism and studied Roman architecture as nobody had done before, since its images spread with enormous speed through his books, and it was quickly translated into various languages. Serlio established the five basic architectural orders.

In the Fourth book he attends to the forms of building and their ornaments: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Integrated. SEH-IX