Author: Rudolf Wittkower
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393005998
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Sir Kenneth Clark wrote in the Architectural Review, that the first result of this book was "to dispose, once and for all, of the hedonist, or purely aesthetic, theory of Renaissance architecture, ' and this defines Wittkower's intention in a nutshell.