Quinto libro d'architettura
Quinto libro d'architettura is a 1551 Venetian architectural treatise by Sebastiano Serlio, printed in Venice for Melchione Sessa and aimed at builders and students of church design. Its woodcut plates show church facades, sections, ground plans and domed centrally planned chapels drawn in plain outline with dimension lettering. A designer can take from them the clear geometry of classical elevations, with columns, arches, drums and pediments that read well as line-based motifs.
