Walter Gedde
Walter Gedde was an English designer of the Jacobean period. He is known for his influential ''A Booke of Sundry Draughtes principaly serving for Glasiers'' (London: Walter Dight, 1615). No further information for his biography is known. The book contains 103 woodcut engravings. Gedde explained that his patterns were also suitable for plasterers and gardeners.Mark Girouard, ''Elizabethan Architecture'' (Yale, 2009), p. 45. Some designs derive from Sebastiano Serlio's ''Il Quattro Libri Dell'Architettura''. References External links ''A booke of sundry draughtes principaly serving for glasiers'', EEBO Text Creation Partnership, text only {{DEFAULTSORT:Gedde, Walter 17th-century English artists ...
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Sebastiano Serlio
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"). Biography Born in Bologna, Serlio went to Rome in 1514, and worked in the atelier of Baldassare Peruzzi, where he stayed until the Sack of Rome in 1527 put all architectural projects on hold for a time. Like Peruzzi, he began as a painter. He lived in Venice from about 1527 to the early 1540s but left little mark on the city. Serlio's model of a church façade was a regularized version, cleaned up and made more classical, of the innovative method of providing a façade to a church with a high vaulted nave flanked by low side aisles, providing a ...
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