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Serlio

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Serlio (Italian) [ˈserʎo]
n
(Biographies / Serlio, Sebastiano (1475-1554) M, Italian, ARCHITECTURE: architect, ARTS AND CRAFTS: painter) Sebastiano. 1475-1554, Italian architect and painter, best known for his treatise Complete Works on Architecture and Perspective (1537-75), the first to set out the principles of classical architecture and to give rules for their application


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We also have the first complete account of his handling of the Classical orders, inspired by the theories of Serlio on the relation of the Doric, Ionic and Corinthian orders to the different aspects of the male and female characters and roles.
18) The scenography was of the utmost importance: under the critical gaze of a king fond of the elaborate world of the court masque, Inigo Jones reconstructed classical stagecraft as filtered through Vitruvius and Serlio in Christ Church hall.
4-6, Kuyper was the first to identify Serlio as the source for many of the entry designs.
 
 
 
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