The Centrally Planned Church and the Renaissance | |
Alberti's Programme of the Ideal Church | p. 16 |
Centralized Churches in Later Architectural Theory | p. 22 |
Building Practice: S. Maria delle Carceri | p. 29 |
Bramante and Palladio | p. 31 |
The Religious Symbolism of Centrally Planned Churches | p. 38 |
Alberti's Approach to Antiquity in Architecture | |
The Column in Alberti's Theory and Practice | p. 41 |
S. Francesco at Rimini | p. 43 |
S. Maria Novella | p. 47 |
S. Sebastiano and S. Andrea at Mantua | p. 51 |
The Change in Alberti's Interpretation of Classical Architecture | p. 59 |
Principles of Palladio's Architecture | |
The Architect as 'uomo universale': Palladio, Trissino and Barbaro | p. 60 |
Palladio's Geometry: The Villas | p. 67 |
Palladio and Classical Architecture: Palaces and Public Buildings | p. 75 |
The Genesis of an Idea: Palladio's Church Facades | p. 89 |
Palladio's Optical and Psychological Concepts: Il Redentore | p. 97 |
The Problem of Harmonic Proportion in Architecture | |
Francesco Giorgi's Platonic Programme for S. Francesco della Vigna | p. 104 |
The Mean Proportionals and Architecture | p. 107 |
Alberti's 'Generation' of Ratios | p. 111 |
Musical Consonances and the Visual Arts | p. 113 |
Palladio's 'fugal' System of Proportion | p. 119 |
Palladio's Ratios and the Development of Sixteenth-Century Musical Theory | p. 123 |
The Break-away from the Laws of Harmonic Proportion in Architecture | p. 130 |
Francesco Giorgi's Memorandum for S. Francesco della Vigna | p. 138 |
The Problem of the Commensurability of Ratios in the Renaissance | p. 140 |
Bibliographical Notes on the Theory of Proportion | p. 142 |
Proportion in Art and Architecture: an amalgamation of previously unpublished lectures by Professor Wittkower | |
The Need for Order | p. 145 |
Origins of Western Proportional Systems | p. 147 |
Geometry and Mediaeval Proportions | p. 150 |
Renaissance Proportions and Commensurability | p. 152 |
Post-Renaissance Proportioning--Dilemmas and Possibilities | p. 154 |
Index | p. 156 |
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