Architectural principles in the age of humanism /

"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 exp...

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Main Authors: Wittkower, Rudolf, Wittkower, Rudolf, 1901-1971
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex : Academy Editions, 1998
London : Academy, c1998
London : [1998]
Edition:5th ed
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505 0 0 |g Part I  |t The Centrally Planned Church and the Renaissance --  |g 1  |t Alberti's Programme of the Ideal Church  |g 16 --  |g 2.  |t Centralized Churches in Later Architectural Theory  |g 22 --  |g 3.  |t Building Practice: S. Maria delle Carceri  |g 29 --  |g 4.  |t Bramante and Palladio  |g 31 --  |g 5.  |t The Religious Symbolism of Centrally Planned Churches  |g 38 --  |g Part II  |t Alberti's Approach to Antiquity in Architecture --  |g 1.  |t The Column in Alberti's Theory and Practice  |g 41 --  |g 2.  |t S. Francesco at Rimini  |g 43 --  |g 3.  |t S. Maria Novella  |g 47 --  |g 4.  |t S. Sebastiano and S. Andrea at Mantua  |g 51 --  |g 5.  |t The Change in Alberti's Interpretation of Classical Architecture  |g 59 --  |g Part III  |t Principles of Palladio's Architecture --  |g 1.  |t The Architect as 'uomo universale': Palladio, Trissino and Barbaro  |g 60 --  |g 2.  |t Palladio's Geometry: The Villas  |g 67 --  |g 3.  |t Palladio and Classical Architecture: Palaces and Public Buildings  |g 75 --  |g 4.  |t The Genesis of an Idea: Palladio's Church Facades  |g 89 --  |g 5.  |t Palladio's Optical and Psychological Concepts: Il Redentore  |g 97 --  |g Part IV  |t The Problem of Harmonic Proportion in Architecture --  |g 1.  |t Francesco Giorgi's Platonic Programme for S. Francesco della Vigna  |g 104 --  |g 2.  |t The Mean Proportionals and Architecture  |g 107 --  |g 3.  |t Alberti's 'Generation' of Ratios  |g 111 --  |g 4.  |t Musical Consonances and the Visual Arts  |g 113 --  |g 5.  |t Palladio's 'fugal' System of Proportion  |g 119 --  |g 6.  |t Palladio's Ratios and the Development of Sixteenth-Century Musical Theory  |g 123 --  |g 7.  |t The Break-away from the Laws of Harmonic Proportion in Architecture  |g 130 --  |g Appendix I  |t Francesco Giorgi's Memorandum for S. Francesco della Vigna  |g 138 --  |g Appendix II  |t The Problem of the Commensurability of Ratios in the Renaissance  |g 140 --  |g Appendix III  |t Bibliographical Notes on the Theory of Proportion  |g 142 --  |g Appendix IV  |t Proportion in Art and Architecture: an amalgamation of previously unpublished lectures by Professor Wittkower --  |t The Need for Order  |g 145 --  |t Origins of Western Proportional Systems  |g 147 --  |t Geometry and Mediaeval Proportions  |g 150 --  |t Renaissance Proportions and Commensurability  |g 152 --  |t Post-Renaissance Proportioning--Dilemmas and Possibilities  |g 154. 
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