Il primo[-secondo] libro d'architettura

Serlio, Sebastiano, 1475-1554 · 1551 · In Vinetia : Per Cornelio de Nicolini da Sabbio a instantia de Marchio Sessa · 53 pictures

Il primo[-secondo] libro d'architettura is a 1551 Venetian architectural treatise by Sebastiano Serlio, printed in Venice by Cornelio de Nicolini da Sabbio for the Marchio Sessa press, teaching geometry and perspective to builders and craftsmen. Its pictures are plain line diagrams of circles, squares, ellipses and construction lines with lettered points, offering a designer clear models of Renaissance geometric proportion and drafting method.

Geometry · Perspective · Architecture

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