Title page to Book I of Sebastiano Serlio's 'Di Architettura' featuring strapwork ornament and the depiction of drawing instruments
Subject Date | 1551 |
Image Date | 1551 |
Style | Renaissance |
Medium | Print |
Library Reference | EW E.e.459 |
Orientation | Portrait |
Colour Info | Black and white |
Credit | RIBA Collections |
Subject | Tools ; Book design ; Ornament ; Drawing instruments ; Drawing techniques |
SOURCE: Sebastiano Serlio. Il Primo libro d'architettura (Di Architettura, book I) (Venice, 1551), title page NOTES: This 1551 publication formed the first collected edition of all five of Serlio's books on architecture, which had previously appeared as first editions between 1537 and 1547.
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