Architectural Principles In The Age Of Humanism

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"Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review.

A fourth edition of the forty-year-old classic.

Focusing on the principal architects of that time-from Alberti to Palladio-this bestselling classic explains the true significance of certain architectural forms, bringing to light the connections between the architecture and culture of the period. With ...
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Overview

"Professor Wittkower's....studies of humanist architecture are masterpieces of scholarship."-Sir Kenneth Clark, Architectural Review.

A fourth edition of the forty-year-old classic.

Focusing on the principal architects of that time-from Alberti to Palladio-this bestselling classic explains the true significance of certain architectural forms, bringing to light the connections between the architecture and culture of the period. With publication scheduled to coincide with that of Architectonics of Humanism, this important reference is superbly reproduced in a new, large square format.

The late RUDOLF WITTKOWER was a college professor and eminent scholar residing in London, England.
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The latest revision in ten years of what has become a classic elucidation of the connections between the architecture and the culture of the Renaissance. First published in 1949 as volume 19 of the . The 50-year commemorative edition integrates the illustrations with the text and includes an edited selection of lectures by Wittkower (b. 1901), who removed from Germany to London ahead of the Nazis and became active in the Warburn Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780393005998
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 9/1/1971
  • Series: Academy Editions Series
  • Pages: 244
  • Sales rank: 607,073
  • Product dimensions: 0.55 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 5.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Rudolf Wittkower was born in Berlin in 1901. Leaving Germany when the Nazis came to power, he was one of the animators of the Warburg Institute of London. In 1941 he organized, with Fritz Saxl, the exhibition British Art and the Mediterranean, the publication of which (1948) forms an important document of the aims and methods of the Warburg Institute. A great scholar of Italian Renaissance and Baroque art, Wittkower taught at both the University of London and Columbia University. His books, all important works of scholarship, include Die Zeichnungen des Gian Lorenzo Bernini (with H. Bruer, 1931), The Drawings of the Carracci at Windsor Castle (1952), Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the Sculptor of Roman Baroque (1955), Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750 (1958), Born under Saturn (with Margot Wittkower, 1963), and Divine Michelangelo: The Florentine Academy's Homage on His Death in 1564 (with Margot Wittkower, 1964). In addition, he was a frequent contributor to the Journal of the Warbung and Courtauld Institute, the Art Bulletin, Burlington Magazine and the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, among others.
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Table of Contents

Pt. I The Centrally Planned Church and the Renaissance
1 Alberti's Programme of the Ideal Church 16
2 Centralized Churches in Later Architectural Theory 22
3 Building Practice: S. Maria delle Carceri 29
4 Bramante and Palladio 31
5 The Religious Symbolism of Centrally Planned Churches 38
Pt. II Alberti's Approach to Antiquity in Architecture
1 The Column in Alberti's Theory and Practice 41
2 S. Francesco at Rimini 43
3 S. Maria Novella 47
4 S. Sebastiano and S. Andrea at Mantua 51
5 The Change in Alberti's Interpretation of Classical Architecture 59
Pt. III Principles of Palladio's Architecture
1 The Architect as 'uomo universale': Palladio, Trissino and Barbaro 60
2 Palladio's Geometry: The Villas 67
3 Palladio and Classical Architecture: Palaces and Public Buildings 75
4 The Genesis of an Idea: Palladio's Church Facades 89
5 Palladio's Optical and Psychological Concepts: Il Redentore 97
Pt. IV The Problem of Harmonic Proportion in Architecture
1 Francesco Giorgi's Platonic Programme for S. Francesco della Vigna 104
2 The Mean Proportionals and Architecture 107
3 Alberti's 'Generation' of Ratios 111
4 Musical Consonances and the Visual Arts 113
5 Palladio's 'fugal' System of Proportion 119
6 Palladio's Ratios and the Development of Sixteenth-Century Musical Theory 123
7 The Break-away from the Laws of Harmonic Proportion in Architecture 130
App. I Francesco Giorgi's Memorandum for S. Francesco della Vigna 138
App. II The Problem of the Commensurability of Ratios in the Renaissance 140
App. III Bibliographical Notes on the Theory of Proportion 142
App. IV Proportion in Art and Architecture: an amalgamation of previously unpublished lectures by Professor Wittkower 145
Index 156
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