Artist

Sebastiano Serlio

Portrait of Sebastiano Serlio
Portrait of Sebastiano Serlio

Italian, 1475–1554

Sebastiano Serlio was an Italian Mannerism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Statens Museum for Kunst. Sebastiano Serlio was born in Bologna.

Sebastiano Serlio (6 September 1475 – c. 1554) was an Italian Mannerist architect, who was part of the Italian team building the Palace of Fontainebleau. Serlio helped canonize the classical orders of architecture in his influential treatise variously known as I sette libri dell'architettura ("Seven Books of Architecture") or Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prospetiva ("All the works on architecture and perspective").

Works by Sebastiano Serlio

Collections represented

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