Extraordinario libro di architettura di Sebastiano Serlio, architetto del re christianissimo
Subtitle: nel quale si dimonstrano trenta porte di opera rustica mista con diuersi ordini: et venti di opera dilicata di diuerse specie con la scrittura davanti, che narra il tutto
Contributors: Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638; Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638; Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638; Greuter, Mathieu, 1564?-1638; Sessa, Melchiorre, active 1546-1600, publisher, printer; Sessa, Giovanni Battista, active 1546-1602, publisher, printer
Publisher: Appresso Giouambattista, & Marchio Sessa fratelli
Published: 1557
Place of publication: In Venetia
Language: ita
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Illustrations; Pictorial works; Early works to 1800; Doorways; Gates; Architecture; Trajan's Column (Rome, Italy); Palazzo del Quirinale (Rome, Italy); Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano; Santa Maria Maggiore (Church : Rome, Italy); Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura (Vignola)
Other titles: Extraordinario Libro Di Architettvra di Sebastiano Serlio, Architetto Del Re Christianissimo :; Extraordinario libro di architettura di Sebastiano Serlio, architetto del re christianissimo :
Work titles: Extraordinario libro di architettura
Notes: Signatures: A⁶.

In the author's Tutte l'opere d'architettura, 1584, published as a 7-volume work, this title forms volume 6.

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Avery Classics copy: Bound with this are 23 plates, chiefly representing doorways; there are several duplicates. All but three of the plates are from an unknown edition (or editions) of Vignola. One of the three remaining plates, source undetermined, is of a well (?). The two remaining sheets comprise four images by Matthäus Geuter including nos. 2456, 1504, 3836 and 1173 in Arrigoni, P. and Bertarelli, A. Piante e vedue di Roma e del Lazio, with titles "La sontuosissima Capella della Madonna a S. Maria Maggiore fatta da M. S. Papa Paolo V con artificiosa" on same sheet with "Colonna Traiana ..." the sheet is signed and dated in plate Greuter exe. 1618 with II at foot of page ;" Vista interiore della Chiesa di S. Pierto in Vaticano" on same leaf with " Palazzo papale a Monte Cavallo incominciata da Sisto V. et da N.S. Papa Paolo V. finito amplificao et in miglio foma ridoto, con al Sala Reggia, et Capella Papale, fatta di nuovo da fondamenti." with III at foot of page. The plate of Saint Peter's does not include the ground plan.The plates are numbers 224, 225, 226 and 227 of volume 11 (part 2) of The New Hollstein German engravings, etching and woodcuts 1400-1700 on the Greuther family.

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