Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

Name: Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism
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ISBN: 9780393005998

ISBN-10: 0393005992

ISBN-13: 9780393005998

Edition: 1971

Authors: Rudolf Wittkower

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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 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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List price: $21.95
Copyright year: 1971
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/17/1971
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.70" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

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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