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SEBASTIANO SERLIO (1475-C. 1554)

Tutte l'opere d'architettura et prrospetiva / di Sebastiano Serlio... ; con un'indice copiosissimo con molte considerationi & un breve discorso sopra questa materia, raccolto di M. Gio. Domenico Scamozzi.

1600

RCIN 1073122

These two plans for garden labyrinths are amongst the earliest to have been published in Italy and contributed to the growing popularity of this garden feature in the sixteenth-century formal garden. Labyrinths like these offered a single path to the centre; mazes differed in offering alternative routes, although the terms were often used interchangeably.

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