Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

by Rudolf Wittkower

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781013683350
Publisher:	Hassell Street Press
Publication date:	09/09/2021
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.52(d)

About 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.

Table of Contents

THE CENTRALLY PLANNED CHURCH AND THE RENAISSANCE
Alberti's Programme of the Ideal Church
Centralized Churches in Later Architectural Theory
Building Practice: S Maria delle Carceri
Bramante and Palladio
The Religious Symbolism of Centrally Planned Churches
ALBERTI'S APPROACH TO ANTIQUITY IN ARCHITECTURE
The Column Alberti's Theory and Practice
S. Francesco at Rimini
S. Maria Novella
Sebastiano and S. Andrea at Mantua
The Change in Alberti's Interpretation of Classical Architecture
PRINCIPLES OF PALLADIO'S ARCHITECTURE
The Architect as 'uomo universale': Palladio, Trissino and Barbaro
Palladio and Classical Architecture: Palaces and Public Buildings
The Genesis of an Idea: Palladio's Church Facades
Palladio's Optical and Psychological Concepts: II Redentore
THE PROBLEM OF HARMONIC PROPORTION IN ARCHITECTURE
Francesco Giorgi's Platonic Programme for S. Francesco della Vigna
The Mean Proportionals and Architecture
Alberti's Generation of Ratios
Musical Consonances and the Visual Arts
Palladio's 'fugal' System of Proportion
Palladio's Ratios and the Development of Sixteenth-Century Musical Theory
The Break-away from the Laws of Harmonic Porportion Architecture
Appendices
Index

Editorial Reviews

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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