CONTENTS
Preface 6
Introduction 9
13 Chapter one Serlio's life 13
Chapter two Serlio's other works in FranceFrom perspective 43
painter to architect.
Serlio's artistic development from the beginning
of his career to 1541
The Chateau d'Ancy-le-Franc
Chapter three 83
Serlio's buildings and projects in France
Chapter four 85
Ancy-le-Franc: Serlio's patron
Chapter five 91
Ancy-le-Franc: the history of the building
Chapter six 103
Ancy-le-Franc: the original building and its planning
Chapter seven 125
An cy-le-Franc: the exterior
Chapter eight 145
Ancy-le-Franc: the cour d'honneur
Chapter nine 171
Ancy-le -Franc: the interior arrangement
and original function of the rooms
Chapter ten 181
Ancy-le-Franc: the decoration of the rooms
Chapter eleven 209
Ancy-le-Franc: typology
Buildings for Ippolito d'Este
Chapter twelve 219
The Grand Ferrare in Fontainebleau
Chapter thirteen 242
Chaalis
Projects for Francois I
Chapter fourteen 249
Fontainebleau
Chapter fifteen 267
The Louvre
Serlio’s other works in France
Chapter sixteen 289
The chapel of Saint-Eloi des Orfevres
Chapter seventeen 302
Buildings and projects for Cardinal de Tournon
Chapter eighteen 321
Projects for the dinteville brothers
Chapter nineteen 333
The years in Lyon
The flexibility of the rules : serlio’s late stayle
Chapeter twenty 349
The Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Books
and the Libra straordinario: Serlio's stylistic development
1541-1552
Chapter twenty-one 366
Theory and Practice
Serlio’s Legacy
Chapter twenty-two 373
Serlio and Lescot
Postscript 384
Appendix
Select bibliography 388
Index of names 394
Index of Places 397
Index of Drawings 400