The Architect and the Representation of Architecture: Sebastian Serlio's frontispiece to Il terzo libro
- Publisher:
- University of Sydney
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- Luscombe Desley 2005, 'The Architect and the Representation of Architecture: Sebastian Serlio's frontispiece to Il terzo libro', University of Sydney, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 34-53.
- Issue Date:
- 2005
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This paper questions what at any time is used to represent the discipline of architecture
and the figure of the architect as constructs within historical notions
of the social. By examining a single illustration, the frontispiece to Sebastiano
Serlio's II terzo libro, the paper argues that the frontispiece portrays a correspondence
between the technical conventions of the architect with the concepts and
principles of the discipline. The frontispiece didactically states that the architect
is able to fulfil the role implicit in 'Nature,' to transform the 'licentiousness' of
antique architecture through reason andjudgment, and through this transformation
bring ideals of decorum to concepts of the social through architecture. The
paper shows that for late Renaissance ltaly, the architect is represented as intellectually
autonomous from, while dependent on, structures of governmentality
and patronage for the formation of the discipline. This formulation enabled the
architect to represent the social through architecture's resolution of the competing
circumstances of the city.
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