Product Description: The papers in this collection were presented at a symposium sponsored by the Conference on British Studies at the University of Delaware. Six leading experts on different aspects of eighteenth-century Britain wrote on a general theme which cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries...read more

Product Description: Vinculado, como otros grandes historiadores del arte europeo, al fecundo Instituto de Londres Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) se distinguió por sus ejemplares estudios sobre la arquitectura y la escultura del Renacimiento y el Barroco: Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (1949), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1955), Art an...read more

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Product Description: A rare art history classic that The New York Times calls a “delightful, scholarly and gossipy romp through the character and conduct of artists from antiquity to the French Revolution.”Born Under Saturn is a classic work of scholarship written with a light and winning touch...read more

Product Description: Frente a la reducida visión de los especialistas, Rudolf Wittkower pone de relieve en esta obra cómo las diferentes culturas del este y el oeste pueden inspirarse recíprocamente sin por ello perder su originalidad. Esta peculiar «migración de los símbolos» la estudia Wittkower en la difusión mundial del motivo d...read more

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Product Description: A survey of Italian baroque art and architecture. It focuses on the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily in the high baroque period.

Product Description: A boxed set of the three volume survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture which focuses on the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods.

Product Description: A survey of Italian baroque art and architecture. It focuses on the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily in the early baroque period. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Reinterpreting the architectural principles of the Renaissance period. This book presents a fresh viewpoint on the use of symmetry and proportion in Alberti and Palladio with the help of new illustrations and examples. Covering the evolution of the Renaissance tradition into the twentieth century, this book offers a new evaluation which veers from Le Corbusier and the French school and moves toward the continuation and transformation in the Viennese and Chicago practices exemplified by Frank Lloyd Wright and the American school...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

"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. (view table of contents)

Examines the contributions to sculpture of the seventeenth-century Italian artist (view table of contents)

Product Description: With the aid of over 180 photographs, this book studies what unites and separates sculptors across the centuries. It looks at the masters of Archaic Greece, the Middle Ages, through the great names of Michelangelo, Cellini and Bernini to Rodin, Brancusi and Henry Moore...read more

Product Description: The collected essays of Rudolf Wittkower. Wittkower deplored specialization. For him, it was the fact that art communicated experience which made it a rewarding study, and nothing fascinating him more than the way in which one culture picked up and transformed the images of another...read more

Investigates the ways in which Bernini, Burlington, Inigo Jones, English neoclassicism, and Venetian religious architecture were influenced by the design principles of the Renaissance architect

Product Description: Book by Wittkower, Rudolf

Product Description: Book by Wittkower, Rudolf

Product Description: First edition. Wittkower talks briefly about Andrea Palladio's influence on Venetian Religious Architecture, Bernini, Palladio's involvement in the Renaissance, and his Quattro Libri. With 219 illustrations. 224 pages. cloth, dust jacket. large 8vo..

This comprehensive survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Italian Baroque period focuses particularly on the work of Bernini, Barromini, Cortona, and other Roman classicists