Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower
New York: Phaidon Publishers, Inc., 1969.
Hardcover.
Second Impression.
British art historian Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) was chairman of the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University when he retired in 1969. These twenty-six essays were presented to Wittkower on his sixty-fifth birthday and deal with subjects in each of the overlapping categories into which most of his published work falls: the migration and interpretation of symbols, problems of proportion and perspective, the iconographic interpretation of art, Italian Renaissance sculpture and architecture, Baroque art in all its manifestations, Palladio and Palladianism, and English architecture. With contributions by Edith Porada, Robert Branner, I. Q. van Regteren Altena, Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein, Giuseppe Fiocco, Franz Graf Wolff Metternich, Peter Murray, Ludwig Heydenreich, Nicolai Rubinstein, Andre Chastel, Rene Taylor, James Ackermann, Cesare Brandi, Renato Cevese, Paolo Portoghesi, Henry Millon, Wolfgang Herrmann, Dorothea Nyberg, Henry-Russell Hitchcock, John Harris, Damie Stillman, Eileen Harris, Hans Huth, Winslow Ames, Enrick Castelnuovo, and Eduard Sekler.
Item #902312ISBN: 0714813001
8-7/8 x 12-1/2”, maroon cloth, light gray endpapers, x, 381pp, 26 essay, bibliography of the writings of Rudolf Wittkower, tipped-in photographic portrait of RW, 127pp of black and white illustrations on glossy paper.
Bumping to corners of boards and crimping and rubbing to spine ends, a bit of rubbing to cloth around edges of boards, former owner’s bookplate 1st paste-down endpaper, tight, clean, very good in dust wrapper and protective mylar.
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