Scamozzi’s Idea della architettura universale (1615) is the last architectural treatise endeavoring to provide a comprehensive and all-encompassing presentation of all theoretical and practical issues pertaining to architecture. […]
Already in his early youth Sebastiano Serlio’s writings were well-known to Vincenzo Scamozzi. In particular Serlio’s third book, dedicated to ancient Roman architecture, and his first two books on geometry and perspective, formed […]
This article presents the Serlio-copy of 1551 with the glosses of Scamozzi which the Ernst von Siemens Foundation has acquired for the library of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte. We present the realia of the volume and the glosses in the conte…