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Sebastiano Serlio
b. Bologna, 1475;
d. Fontainebleau, 1554.
The first popularizer of architecture in print, author of the first architectural picture books. He went to Rome in 1514 and was a pupil probably of Raphael and certainly of Peruzzi when the latter succeeded the former as associate architect to St Peter’s in 1520. Peruzzi accumulated plans and [...]