Sebastiano Serlio [SEP] date of death
Sebastiano Serlio
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").
Biography.
Born in Bologna, Serlio went to Rome in 1514, and worked in the
Paul V and an allegory of Death.
Collectors.
In the first half of the sixteenth century Gabriele Vendramin was a notable patron of artists and the owner of one of the most significant collections in Venice. Sebastiano Serlio saluted him in print as an authority on ancient Roman buildings and the work of Vitruvius. He was painted with his brother Andrea and Andrea's seven sons in Titian's "Portrait of the Vendramin Family" in the 1540s ("illustration"). Though he married Maria Grimani in 1538, and