Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism

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 in Alberti's Theory and Practice

S. Francesco at Rimini

S. Maria Novella

S. 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's Geometry: The Villas

Palladio and Classical Architecture: Palaces and Public Buildings

The Genesis of an Idea: Palladio's Church Façades

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

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.