Sebastiano Serlio

Sebastiano Serlio
Fanciful Portrait of Sebastiano Serlio (Print by Vincenzo Raggio)
Born	6 September 1475 Bologna, Italy
Died	c. 1554 (aged 78–79) Fontainebleau, France
Nationality	Italian
Occupation	Architect
Projects	I Sette libri dell'architettura

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").