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Sebastiano Serlio

1475 - 1554

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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"). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sebastiano Serlio is the 78th most popular architect (down from 77th in 2019), the 992nd most popular biography from Italy (down from 922nd in 2019) and the 13th most popular Italian Architect.

Sebastiano Serlio is most famous for his book, the Regola delli cinque ordini d'architettura, which is a book on architecture.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Sebastiano Serlio ranks 78 out of 518. Before him are Ustad Ahmad Lahori, Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Guarino Guarini, Charles Garnier, Albert Speer, and Peter Parler. After him are Claude Perrault, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Erich Mendelsohn, Philip Johnson, Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, and Robert Venturi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1475, Sebastiano Serlio ranks 8. Before him are Pope Leo X, Cesare Borgia, Paolo Uccello, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Diego de Almagro, and Beatrice d'Este. After him are Bernardino Luini, Luis Ramírez de Lucena, Anne of York, Afonso, Prince of Portugal, Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, and Maximus the Greek. Among people deceased in 1554, Sebastiano Serlio ranks 6. Before him are Lady Jane Grey, Piri Reis, Francisco Vázquez de Coronado, Leo Africanus, and John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony. After him are João Manuel, Prince of Portugal, Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, Sibylle of Cleves, Thomas Wyatt the Younger, Hieronymus Bock, and Pedro Cieza de León.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Sebastiano Serlio ranks 992 out of 5,161. Before him are Francesco II Sforza (1495), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Antonio Conte (1969), Vonones I (-100), Trota of Salerno (1001), and Augustine of Canterbury (510). After him are Vincenzo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1562), Antipope Clement III (1025), Vittorio Monti (1868), Lorenzo Costa (1460), Bartolomeo Eustachi (1500), and Cesare Pavese (1908).

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Among ARCHITECTS In Italy

Among architects born in Italy, Sebastiano Serlio ranks 13. Before him are Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507), Giacomo della Porta (1533), Arnolfo di Cambio (1240), Aldo Rossi (1931), Michelozzo (1396), and Guarino Guarini (1624). After him are Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548), Giuliano da Sangallo (1445), Richard Rogers (1933), Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt (1668), Antonio da Sangallo the Younger (1484), and Bartolomeo Ammannati (1511).

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