Sebastiano Serlio was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the 16th century. The author of the first wide-ranging illustrated book on architecture, he produced a complete set of model designs as well as practical solutions for everyday design problems.
Sebastiano Serlio was one of the most influential architectural writers of the 16th century. This work brings together five volumes of his treatise on the principles of architecture, which deal with the rules of geometry and perspective, and attempt to codify the rules of design.