Art and Architecture in Italy 1600-1750, Vol. 1: Early Baroque (Yale University Press Pelican History of Art) - Softcover

Rudolf Wittkower; Jennifer Montagu; Joseph Connors

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300079397 ISBN 13: 9780300079395

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1999

Synopsis

This classic survey of Italian Baroque art and architecture focuses on the arts in every center between Venice and Sicily in the early, high, and late Baroque periods. The heart of the study, however, lies in the architecture and sculpture of the exhilarating years of Roman High Baroque, when Bernini, Borromini, and Cortona were all at work under a series of enlightened popes. Wittkower’s text is now accompanied by a critical introduction and substantial new bibliography. This edition will also include color illustrations for the first time.

This is the first book in the three volume survey.

About this title

About the Author:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0300079397
• ISBN 13: 9780300079395
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 132