Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750 by Rudolf Wittkower

Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750 by Rudolf Wittkower

This volume covers one of the greatest creative periods in the history of Italian art, looking at the progress of the arts in every centre between Venice and Sicily. It focuses on the art and architecture of the Roman High Baroque period, when Bernini, Borrowmini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes.

Rudolf Wittkower was the Durning-Lawrence Professor of Art History at the University of London, the chairman of Columbia University's department of art history and archaeology, the Kress Professor at the National Gallery in Washington, and the Slade Professor at Cambridge. Jennifer Montagu was the keeper of the Photography Collection at the University of London's Warburg Institute for many years. Professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University, Joseph Connors Princeton University's Howard Crosby Butler Memorial Professor of Art History and Archaeology is John Pinto.

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ISBN 13	9780300053081
ISBN 10	0300053088
Title	Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750
Author	Rudolf Wittkower
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Yale University Press
Year published	1991-06-01
Number of pages	664
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