Title & Author:

Essays in the history of architecture presented to Rudolf Wittkower / edited by Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard & Milton J. Lewine.

Publication:

London, Phaidon, 1967.

Description:

x, 381 pages illustrations, plate (portrait), plans, diagrams 32 cm

Notes:
Part 1 of Essays presented to Rudolf Wittkower on his sixty-fifth birthday.
"With twenty-six contributions"--P. facing t.p.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-381).
Battlements in the military architecture and in the symbolism of the ancient Near East / Edith Porada -- The Montjoies of Saint Louis / Robert Branner -- Hidden records of the Holy Sepulchre / I.Q. van Regteren Altena -- Pius II's Piazza S. Pietro and St. Andrew's Head / Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein -- Alvise Cornaro e il Teatro / Giuseppe Fiocco -- Über die Massgrundlagen des Kuppelenwurfes Bramantes für die Peterskirche in Rom / Franz Graf Wolff Metternich -- Observations on Bramante's St. Peter's / Peter Murray -- Bramante's "Ultima Maniera": Die St. Peter-Studien Uff. arch.8 v und 20 / Ludwig H. Heydenreich -- Vasari's painting of The fountain of Florence in the Palazzo Vecchio / Nicolai Rubinstein -- L'Escalier de la Cour Ovale à Fontainebleau / André Chastel -- Architecture and magic: considerations on the Idea of the Escorial / René Taylor -- Palladio's Lost Portico Project for San Petronio in Bologna / James S. Ackerman -- Perchè il Palladio non fu neo-classico / Cesare Brandi -- Proposta per una nuova lettura critica dell'arte palladiana / Renato Cevese -- L'Opus Architectonicum del Borromini / Paolo Portoghesi -- Michelangelo Garove and the Chapel of the Beato Amedeo of Savoy in the Cathedral of Vercelli / Henry Millon -- Unknown designs for the "Temple of Jerusalem" by Claude Perrault / Wolfgang Herrmann -- La sainte Antiquité: focus of an eighteenth-century architectural debate / Dorothea Nyberg -- Peter II Thumb and German rococo architecture / Henry-Russell Hitchcock -- Le Geay, Piranesi and international neo-classicism in Rome 1740-1750 / John Harris -- Robert Adam and Piranesi / Damie Stillman -- Burke and Chambers on the sublime and beautiful / Eileen Harris -- Chambers and Potsdam / Hans Huth -- The completion of Stafford House / Winslow Ames -- Una disputa ottocentesca sull' "Architettura Simbolica" / Enrico Castelnuovo -- The Stoclet House by Josef Hoffmann / Eduard F. Sekler.
Dust jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0714813001
9780714813004
071481301X
9780714813011

Subject:

Wittkower, Rudolf
Architecture History.
Architecture Histoire.
Architecture.
Architektur

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
Festschriften.
Essays.
History.

Added entries:

Wittkower, Rudolf.
Fraser, Douglas, 1929-1982, editor.
Hibbard, Howard, 1928-1984, editor.
Lewine, Milton J., editor.
Fraser, Douglas
Hibbard, Howard, 1928-
Lewine, Milton J.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 208198
Call No.: N7480.8.W8322 E8 1967b
Status: Available