Verlag: New York: W. W. Norton, 1971, 1971
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
PAPERBACK, cover price $3.45, very good, light wear, 1971 printing with red cover. previous owner's name. WITTKOWER, RUDOLF. Architectural Principles of the Age of Humanism. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971, later printing, 48 illustrations in plates, 173pp., . Cover design by Todd Ash. N599. Includes three-page preface dated 1971. First published in 1949. "The general impact of Professor Wittkower's book on a whole generation of post-war architectural students is one of the phenomena of our time. Its exposition of a body of architectural theory in which function and form were significantly linked by the objective laws governing the Cosmos (as Alberti and Palladio understood them) suddenly offered a way out of the doldrum of routine-functionalist abdications, and neo-Palladianism became the order of the day. The effect of Architectural Principles has made it by far the most important contribution - for evil as well as good - by any historian to English Architecture since Pioneers of the Modern Movement, and it precipitated a nice disputation on the proper uses of history. The question became: Humanist principles to be followed? Or Humanist principles as an example of the kind of principles to look for?" (Banham, A Critic Writes, p. 13, originally, 1955). 9780393005998 ISBN 0393005992.
Verlag: Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1977, 1977
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
Wittkower, Rudolf, 1901-1971. Allegory and the migration of symbols. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1977, 223pp., very good price-clipped dust-jacket, fragment of a Thames and Hudson label stuck to bottom of spine, good brown cloth BUT spine and edges of cloth are mottled and scraped and scratched up. Collected essays of Rudolf Wittkower, Volume Three. -CONTENTS: East and west: the problem of cultural exchange -- Eagle and serpent -- Marvels of the east: a study in the history of monsters -- Marco Polo and the pictorial tradition of the marvels of the East -- 'Roc': an Eastern prodigy in a Dutch engraving -- Chance, time and virtue -- Patience and change: the story of a political emblem -- Hieroglyphics in the early Renaissance -- Transformations of Minerva in Renaissance imagery -- Titian's allegory of 'Religion succoured by Spain' -- El Greco's language of gesture -- Death and resurrection in a picture by Maren de Vos -- 'Grammatica'" from Martianus Capella to Hogarth -- Interpretation of visual symbols. 9780891586272 ISBN 089158627X.
Verlag: London: Phaidon, 1997, 1997
Anbieter: Steven Wolfe Books, Newton Centre, MA, USA
large sewn PAPERBACK, very good lightly used copy with crease marks on spine, densely illustrated and heavy volume. WITTKOWER, RUDOLF. Bernini: the sculptor of the Roman baroque. London: Phaidon, 1997, 4th edition, 320pp., . Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680. - "Gian Lorenzo Bernini was the greatest and most influential sculptor of his age. Endlessly inventive and gifted with extraordinary technical skill, he virtually created the Baroque style. In his religious sculptures he excelled at capturing movement and extreme emotion, uniting figures with their setting to create a single conception of overwhelming intensity that perfectly expressed the fervour of Counter-Reformation Rome. Intensity and drama also characterize his mythological groups, his remarkable portraits and his world-famous Roman fountains. Rudolf Wittkower's classic monograph and catalogue raisonne has remained the standard work on Bernini ever since its first publication in 1955. The concise but masterly survey provides an authoritative introduction to all aspects of Bernini's sculpture, while the full catalogue gives detailed, scholarly and up to date information on his complete oeuvre. This is the one indispensable book on Bernini for all students, scholars and art-lovers". - CONTENTS: Early works and Borghese patronage -- Religious imagery -- Portrait busts -- Work in St. Peter's and the Vatican -- The Cornaro Chapel, other chapels, churches, and the Baroque stage -- Fountains and monuments -- Bernini and his period. The Organization of the studio. Theory and practice. 9780714837154 ISBN 0714837156.
Verlag: London : Thames and Hudson, 1978
ISBN 10: 0500850054 ISBN 13: 9780500850053
Anbieter: MW Books, New York, NY, USA
Erstausgabe
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 255 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Art, Italian. Art, Renaissance. Italian visual arts 1400-1600. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated text. History. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Verlag: London : Thames and Hudson, 1978
ISBN 10: 0500850054 ISBN 13: 9780500850053
Anbieter: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irland
Erstausgabe
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 255 pages : illustrations, plans ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Subjects: Art, Italian. Art, Renaissance. Italian visual arts 1400-1600. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated text. History. Language: English. 1 Kg.
Verlag: London: Thames & Hudson, 1978., 1978
ISBN 10: 0500850054 ISBN 13: 9780500850053
Anbieter: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, USA
Erstausgabe
Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine. 1st Edition. Frontispiece, 255 pp; 272 illus. Original cloth. Bookplate on flyleaf, else Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket (unclipped). Contains 10 studies. The Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower.
Verlag: Milano, Electa,, Milano, 1990
Anbieter: Studio Bibliografico Marini, ROMA, RM, Italien
hardcover. Zustand: Ottimo (Fine). Ricco corredo illustrativo a colori e in bianco e nero. Bibliografia, Indice dei nomi e dei luoghi . 4to (cm 29x25,5). pp. 324. . Ottimo (Fine). . . . Book.