Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard, Milton J. Lewine (Editors)
Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittkower.
London: Phaidon Press, 1967. Essays Presented to Rudolf Wittkower on His Sixty-Fifth Birthday, Part I. First edition. viii/381 pages.
Large-format volume, measuring approximately 9.25" x 12.5", is bound in dark green cloth, with gilt-lettered black spine label. Book is like new. Texts appear in double columns. Illustrated with a plate section, with photos, architectural drawings and plans. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear, with sunning to spine and top edge on front panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
Contents:
"Battlements in the Military Architecture and in the Symbolism of the Ancient Near East" by Edith Porada; "The Montjoies of Saint Louis" by Robert Branner; "Hidden Records of the Holy Sepulchre" by I. Q. Regteren Altena; "Piu II's Piazza S. Pietro and St. Andrew's Head" by Ruth Olitsky Rubinstein; "Alvise Cornaro et il Teatro" by Giuseppe Fiocco; "Über die Massgrundlagen des Kuppelentwurfes Bramantes für die Peterskirche in Rom" by Franz Graf Wolff Metternich; "Observations on Bramante's St. Peter's" by Peter Murray; "Bramante's "Ultima Maniera": Die St. Peter-Studien Uff. arch. 8v und 20" by Ludwig H. Heydenreich; "Vasari's Painting of "The Foundation of Florence" in the Palazzo Vecchio" by Nicolai Rubinstein; "L'Escalier de la Cour Ovale à Fontainebleau" by André Chastel; "Architecture and Magic: Considerations on the "Idea" of the Escorial" by René Taylor; "Palladio's Lost Portico Project for San Petronio in Bologna: by James S. Ackerman; "Perchè il Palladio non fu neo-classico" by Cesare Brandi; "Proposta per una nuova lettura critica dell'arte palladiana" by Renato Cevese; "L'Opus Architectonicum" del Borromini" by Paolo Portoghesi; "Michelangelo Garove and the Chapel of the Beato Amedeo of Savoy in the Cathedral of Vercelli" by Henry Millon; "Unknown Designs for the "Temple of Jerusalem" by Claude Perrault" by Wolfgang Herrmann; ""La sainte Antiquité": Focus on an Eighteenth-century Architectural Debate" by Dorothea Nyberg; "Peter II Thumb and German Rococo Architecture" by Henry-Russell Hitchcock; "Le Geay, Piranesi and International Neo-classicism in Rome, 1740-1750" by John Harris; "Robert Adam and Piranesi" by Damie Stillman; "Burke and Chambers on the Sublime and Beautiful" by Eileen Harris; "Chambers and Potsdam" by Hans Huth; "The Completion of Stafford House" by Winslow Ames; "Una disputa ottocentesca sull'"Architettura Simbolica"" by Enrico Castelnuovo; "The Stoclet House by Josef Hoffmann" by Eduard F. Sekler. The Writings of Rudolf Wittkower.