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1 Ms Coll\Wittkower Wittkower, Rudolf. Papers, [ca. 1923J linear ft. (ca. 23,200 items in 45 boxes, 8 card files) Biography: Rudolf Wittkower ( ) was professor of art history at Columbia University, Summary: Working files of Wittkower, dealing with Baroque and Renaissance painting, sculpture, and architecture. Included are manuscripts, notes, drawings, annotated proofs of articles and books, and some correspondence related to his writings and lectures. The majority of the files document his teaching, research, and writing at the University of London, , and at Columbia University. There also are some manuscript notes from his early years in Italy and Germany. Series I has been divided into six parts: Artists, Subjects, Book Manuscripts, Proofs, Notes, and Printed Materials. Some of the major files are Bernini, Bramante, Carracci, Michelangelo, and Raphael (Artists); Baroque Painting, Patronage, Rome, St. Peter's, Slade Lectures on the history of art (Subjects); Art and Architecture in Italy, Born under Saturn, and Matthews Lectures: Gothic vs. Classic (Book Manuscripts). In addition there are proofs of essays and reviews with manuscript corrections and emendations, copies of several of his own published works with his manuscript corrections, and typescript insertions for new editions. The Notes consist of eight card file boxes with notes chiefly relating to the Baroque period and Bernini. In Series I the contents of the parts overlap. For example, material relating to Bernini can be found in Artists, in Subjects under Rome and St. Peter's, and in Notes. Series II consists of manuscripts, typescripts, notes, galleys, and corrected page proofs of Wittkower's lectures and articles on Renaissance and Baroque sculpture and architecture, which were edited posthumously by Margot Wittkower for inclusion in Sculpture: Process and Principle (1977) and The Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower (1978). Series III (1992 addition): The correspondence consists of invitations to give lectures, , including the Slade Lectures, ; and correspondence and lectures for the "Congress on Proportion," Milan, There is the typescript for Wittkower's bibliography, Literature on Georgian Architecture (1946); a photocopy of page proofs for the German editions of his Allegory and the Migration of Symbols (1976); and entries and notes for an unpublished annotated bibliography of works on English architecture from the 16th through the 18th centuries. Series IV (1992 addition): Lectures, notes, architectural sketches, and clippings mostly relating to Palladian architecture are in these files documenting Wittkower's research from 1950 to 1970 in various cities of North America and Europe, and his teaching in the U.S. and in Italy. Organization: Arranged by topic. Boxes 1-32: Series I; Boxes 33-38: Series II; Boxes 39-41: Series III; Boxes 42-44: Series IV. Finding aids: Contents list, 12p. Donor: Gift of Mrs. Margot Wittkower, 1974; 1977; 1979; 1983; Available for faculty, students, and researchers engaged in scholarly or publication projects. Permission to publish materials must be obtained in writing from the Librarian or Rare Books and Manuscripts. 1. Bernini, Giovanni Lorenzo, Bramante, Donato, Carracci, Agostino, Carracci, Lodovico, Carracci, Annibale, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Palladio, Andrea, Raphael, Columbia University-Faculty. 10. University of London. 11. Basilica di SanPietro in Vaticano. 12. Architecture. 13. Sculpture. 14. Art. 15. Artists as architects. 16. Painting. 17. Arts, Renaissance. 18. Arts, Baroque. 19. Arts-Germany. 20. Arts- Italy. 21. Architecture-Italy. 22. Cathedrals-Italy. 23. Rome (Italy)-History. 24. Architectural drawings. 25. Articles. 26. Bibliographies. 27. Card files 28. Drawings. 29. Essays. 30. Galley proofs. 31. Lectures. 32. Manuscripts for publication. 33. Notes. 34. Proofs. 35. Reviews. 36. Sketches. 37. College teachers. 38. Architects. 39. Art historians. 40. Artists, 41. Sculptors. I. Wittkower, Margot. ID: NYCR89-A BRC - 12/83 HR - 10/00 BRC - 5/77 BRC - 3/92 BRC - 11/79 KM - 11/92

2 1. FJ'DOLF WITTKCWSR PAPERS SERIES I A list of Folders and Boxes SERIES I PART 1 (Boxes 1-16) "(Boxes 17-32) Arxisx-s Algardi's Relief of Pope Liberius Baptizing Neophytes Box 1 Bernini & French Academy: Lecture. Letter by Anthony Blunt, with the British Expeditionary Forces in France, Headquarters Boulogne, no date, (before Dunkerque). Bernini at the court of Louis XIV: Lecture* n ernini at the court of Louis XIV: Bust of Louis XIV. Lectures, 19L9, U.S.A. Bernini - Poussin: Classical Models. International Congress, New York, Bernini: The Complex of St. Peter's. Bernini: Correspondence, 1^ Bernini: Countess Matilda, Bronze. Bernini:' Documents 1 (Bust Charles I). Bernini: Documents 2. Bernini: England. V Bernini: Equestrian Monument of Louis 7TV. Lecture^ B«x 2 Bernini: Equestrian Monument of Louis XIV. Notes 1. Bernini: Equestrian Monument of Louis XIV. Notes 2«Bernini: Influence in England. Bernini: Lecture Hertziana, Bernini: Lecture. Carleton University, Ottawa. November, Bernini: Lecture. Los Angeles, Bernini: Sculptures. Lecture. Bernini: Sculptures. Lectures: Bonn, 1933} Rome, 1055; Detroit, May, 1965} Metropolitan, April, Bernini:Letter after return from Paris (unpublished).

3 Wittkower p. Artists Box 2 (cont.) Bernini: Letters, Bernini, letter 1652, Trivulzio, letter 16 C 6. Xerox, Ms copy. Milan. Bernini: Material 1966 Edition Bernini: Notes* Bernini: Pelican Draft. Box 3 Borromini: Lecture, Rome, Correspondence » Borromini: Drafts, Notes* Borromini! Lecture, Rome, English text, Italian text, Italian proofs - publication, Appendices, Postcript. May 10, Rome, Capitol, Inaugural lecture of Borromini Celebration.Personality e destino di Francesco Borromini. Bramante: Tempietto. Comparative Material. Bramante: Tempietto. Correspondence 1^ Bramante: Tempietto. Inscriptions & history. Bramante: Tempiette. Interpolation of inscribed figures. Bramante: Tempietto. Notes. Bra^iante: Tempietto* Photos. Box 4 Breughel: Lecture. Brunelleschi: Draft for lectures. Material and Ms. with correspondence. Brunelleschi: Optics. Caf* Carracci Minutiae - Festschrift (?) Dr. Tietze* Carracci: Miscellany. Carracci: Notes. Comacchini: Equestrian Monument of Charlemagne* Cortona, Pietro da Dupe*rac: Manuscript, translation, notes*

4 Wittkower p. 5 Artists (cont*) Box 5 Giotto: Lecture Hugo van der Goest Lecture Goya: Lecture Gruenwald: Lecture Guarini Congress Inigo Jones: Lecture - Notes Le Corbusier: Notes - Lecture, Longhena: Venetian Baroque - Vienna. Notes. Michelangelot Vorlesungen. Courtauld Institute, * Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture II. Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture III. Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture IV. Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture V. Michelangelo: Courtanld Lecture VI. Michelangelo: Sistine Ceiling Lecture* Michelangelo: Lecture - Liverpool School of Architecture, Michelangelo: Technique Lecture - Oxford, I960* Michelangelo: Julius Tomb, Medici Chapel. Lecture - Courtauld Institute, Michelangelo: Notes (before 1933)* Box 6 Nanni di Baccio Bigi and Michelangelo. Festschrift Middledorf* Piranesi as Architect. Sssay and Notes* Piranesi: and Egyptomania. April, 1969 (also notes)* Poussin. Raphael: Lecture - Oberlin, Raphael: Notes. Raphael: Stanze lectures*.

5 Wittkower p. 4 Artists (cont*) B«x 6 (cont.) Rainaldi: Carlo Rainaldi und die Roemlsche Architektur des Hoeh Barock* German original text. English translation, notes. Rembrandt: Lecture. Vittone: Lecture - Munich, 1956} Blunt Festschrift, 1966; Harvard, 1 Q 77. Vittone: Notes, SERIES I. PART g. Subjects Box 7 Academies: Three lectures. L f Arcadia e il Giorgionismo, I960. Architecture: Chamber! s Encyclopedia* Art: * Cartridge Modern History, I960* Art Theory - Art Criticism - Quality (Bibliography)* Artists 1 Conduct: Lectures, NOT., Artists 1 Conduct: Emory University, 1963* Baroque Baroque: Architecture, A.A. Lectures. Baroque: Architecture* Course* Baroque (Italian): Architecture. Course - Cambridge, England, 1970 # Baroque: Barokarchitektur in Italien. Baroque Art and the Jesuit Contribution* Lecture and Notes* Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution - t.ms., 27 p.5 ms. corrections* Baroque as a Critical Term. Eryn Mawr, I960* Box 8 Baroque: Le cupole di Vittone. Baroque: Italian Painting, c. Spr, 1963* _- Baroque: lecture - II Barocco in Italia* Convegno, Rome, 1960 o Baroque: Rome Lectures, 1957* baroque: Louvre*

6 Wittkower p. 5 Subjects (confr*) B«x 8 (cont.) Baroque: Misc. Notes - 1. Baroque: Misc. Notes - 2* Baroque: Misc. Notes - 3* Baroque: Oil Bozzetti Baroque. Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres I. Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres II* Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres III. Bafcoque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres IV. Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres V.. Raggi. Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres VI. Guidi. Box 9 Baroque: Sculpture Course, Box 10 Baroque: Late Baroque Sculpture - Notes. Baroque: Sculpture. Notes. Baroque: Sculpture. Towns Topographical. Baroque: Topography: Roman Churches 1. Baroque: Topography: Roman Churches 2. Baroque (Italian): Painting - Lectures. Baroque: Painting - Notes* Baroque: Painting and Sculpture. College, London. Baratta, Bolgi* Rondone, Rusconi. Coarse I - Slade Lecturer, University Baroque: Painting and Sculpture. Course II - Lectures, Slade School, University College, London* Baroquei Slade Lectures, University College, London* Baroque: Venetian Course, 1964* Baroques Centralised Churches. 1 ^ Centrally Planned Buildings* : Chartrest Lecture* Course - New York.

7 Wittkower p, 6 Subjects (cont.) Box 10 Florence: Painting, 17th Century, (cont,) Fontana di Trevi: Notes, Harmony and Golden Section, Inspiration and Reason in the Arts, Oval Churches, Box 11 Painting: Notes - Four Lectures on Approach to Painting, () Charter House, Painting: Dutch, Painting: Italian, 17th Century. Lecture, Royal Academy, 1951, Painting: Italian - Notes* Painting: Portraiture - Piero, Titian, Reynolds, Painting: Studio Practises. Development of Drawing, Lectures, Painting: Venetian, 15th - 16th Centuries* Lecture, Cologne, Patronage: Lectures I - Suger, Communes, Middle Classes.- Patronage: Lectures II - Court Patronage* Patronage: Lectures III - 19th - 20th Centuries; Artist and Patron, Ponce: Museum, Artfcle for Apollo* Problems of Space, Religion and Renaissance Architecture: Lecture. Box l Renaissance: Architecture and the Classical Tradition. Renaissance: Architecture, Drafts and Excerpts. Renaissance: Architecture. Ms, and Catalogue of Buildings, Renaissance: Architecture, Mimeographed Material, Renaissance: Architecture, Notes, Renaissance: Chapter - Cambridge Modern History. Renaissance: Lecture, Cleveland, 1964 (unfinished).

8 Wittkower p. 7 Subjects (corrt*) Box It (cont*) Renaissance: Course* Notes I* Renaissance: Course. Notes II. Renaissance: Course* Notes III* Renaissance: Course, 1963* Renaissance: Course* Science: Leonard** Renaissance: Course - Science^ Notes* Renaissance: Hieroglyphics in the Early Renaissance* Notes* Binghamton* Proofs, Editor 1 s Box 13 Box 14 Renaissance: Notes* Renaissance: Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian* Lecture* Rennaissance and Antiquity: Course, I960* Mimeographed material. Renaissance and Antiquity: Course, I960* Bibliography* Renaissance and Antiquity: Iconographic Lectures* Renaissance: Revival of Antiquity. Nine Lectures, Courtauld*. Renaissance: Revival of Antiquity. Notes. Also - Science. Renaissance: Revival of Antiquity* Notes* Renaissance: Sculpture* Rome I: Ancient, Medieval. Rome II: Renaissance Town - Planning, etc* Rome III: Renaissance (Antiquarian)* Rome IV: Humanists* Rome V: Notes* St. Peter's: Akten - Archivio della Fabbrica* St* Peter's: Baptistry* St. Peter 1 3: Dome* Correspondence* St* Peter's: Dome* "La Cupola di San Pietro di Michelangelo*" 1962 corrected proof*

9 Wittkower p. 8 Subjects (cont.) Box 14 (cont.) St. Peter 1 st Dome. Drawings and Calculations* St. Peter's: Dome. Manuscript. St. Feter's: Dome. Motes. St. Peter's: Dome. Notes. St. Peter's: Dome. Notes, drawing. Box 15 St. Peter's: Bernini Drawings I. St. Peter'3t Bernini Drawings II. St. Peter's: Kuppelraum (Gallery Proofs). Salute: Manuscript (Copy). S. Maria della Salute: Manuscript and Notes. Sculpture: Sculptor's Workshop. Lecture, Glasgow, Sculpture: Lectures, with Notes. Significance of the University Museum: Lecture, Duke University, B x 16 Slade Lectures I - K (1). History of Art, General. Slade Lectures I - U. (2}. History of Art, General. Slade Lectures X. High Art, Popular Art, Follr Art. Slade Lectures: Notes. Slade Lectures: Precis. La Teoria Classica e La Nuova Sensibilita. Lecture, Venice, Sept., Tridentium - Counterreform - Allegory - New Churches* Varallo Congress, Westminster Abbey: Draft for a film, World Chronicles.

10 Wittkower p. 9 Series I. Part 3* Book Manuscripts Box 17 Alberti Rucellai: notes; Art and Architecture in Italy (Pelican ed.): notes Box 17A Art and Architecture in Italy: corrected typescript Box 18 Born under Saturn: drafts, notes, typescript Box 19 Matthews Lectures: Gothic vs. Classic: typescripts and notes Box 20 Die Zeichnungen di Gianlorenzo Bernini: printed book with ms. notes Series I. Part k. Proofs Box 21 Box 22 Books and Articles Books and Articles Series I. Part 5. Motes (in card file boxes) 3ox 23 Box 2U Box 25 Box 26 Box 27 3ox 28 Box 29 Baronue Sculptors: A - L; Algardi; Duqesnoy Baroaue Sculptors: M - Z; Outside Rome; General Baroque: General; Bernini Baroque Sculpture Baroaue Topography; Archivio dellla Fabbrica di S. Pietro Bernini: L.fe, Sculpture, Painting Carracci Box 30 Miscellaneous notes Series I. Part 6. Printed Material Box 31 Annotated copies of his books for later editions Box 32 Books, offprints

11 wrc-gkower p. xu SERIES II. (Boxes 33-38) Box 33 A - H Arcadia e il Giorgionismo: t.mss. Arcadia e il Giorgionismp: t.ms. drafts; notes; bibliography Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism Proportions: notes Art History as a Discipline and Study of Art History: t.mss.; notes Balusters: drawings; notes Baroque Art--The Jesuit Contribution: t.ms.; notes Bernini: t.ms. (revisions for Phaidon 2d. ed.) Bernini Palladio and Bernini: t.mss.; notes Bernini's P. S. Piedro: t.ms. Borromini: t.ms. Bramante and Circle: t.ms.; notes Critical Terms: Mannerism; Baroque: t.mss. Death and Resurrection: t.ms.; notes El Greco: t.mss.; notes Guarini: t.ms. Hieroglyphics in the Early Renaissance: t.ms.; t.ms. draft; notes Box 3k I - Me Imitation, Ecclecticicm and Genius: t.ms.; notes Individualism: notes Individualism in Art: t.mss.; t.ms. drafts; proofs; notes Interpretation of Visual Symbols: t.mss: notes Juvarra, Filippo: t.ms.; notes Mannerist Architecture: t.ms.; proofs Marco Polo: t.rass.; notes Marvels of the East--India: notes Menicantonio Sketchbook: t.mss. drafts; notes Box 35 Mi - Non-European Influences(l) Michelangelo--Esequie--Appendices: t.mss.; notes: drawings Michelangelo--Esequie-~Florence's Tribute to Michelangelo: t.mss.; notes Michelangelo--Esequie--Catalogue: notes; drawings Michelangelo Ssequie Notes: notes; drawings (l) Michelangelo Esequie--Notes: notes; drawings (2) Michelangelo--Laurenziana: notes; drawings Michelangelo--Laurenziana: t.ms. : notes; drawings (English text) Michelangelo--Laurenziana: t.ms. (German text) Non-European Influences--Animal Style and Celtic: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences--Animals; Monsters: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences--China: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences Classical and Anti-classical Trends: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences--Course (Columbia, 1969): notes; bibliography Non-European Influences--Europe and the Near East: t.mss. Box 36 Non-European Influences(2) - V Non-European Influences Illustrations: notes; bibliography lion-european Influences India: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences--Islam: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences--Miscellaneous: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences Monsters: notes Non-European Influences--Near East: notes; bibliography Non-European Influences Nineteenth Century (Modern Art - Primitivism): notes; bibliography Non-European Influences--Venice: notes; bibliography -

12 Wittkower p. 11 Series II. (cont.) Box 36 (cont.) Palladio's Influence on the Development of Venetian Religious Architecture: t.mss.; bibliography Perspective Past and Present: t.ms. draft; notes Piranesi e il Gusto Egiziano: t.ms. (English trans.); bibliography Proportion--Literature: notes Rainaldo, Carlo: proofs; lists of illustrations Renaissance Architecture and the Classical Tradition: t.mss.; list of illustration Sacri Monti: t.mss.; notes; drawings St. Peter's Dome: t.mss.; notes Settignano, Desiderio da: t.mss.; notes Some Observations on Medieval and Renaissance Proportions: t.mss. Transformation of Minerva in Renaissance Imagery: notes Vittone's Domes: t.mss. Box 37 Sculptrae Sculpture Lectures, 1-12: t.mss.; notes; bibliography; list of illustrations Sculpture; Processes and Principles: galley and page proofs Box 38 Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower Galley and page proofs for volumes 3 and k Series III. (Boxes 39-^1) Box 39 Correspondence re: Lectures by Wittkover Invitations for Lectures Accepted, Lecture Tour, Canada, 1967 Slade Lectures, Cambridge, UK, Congress on Proportion, Milan, 1951 Correspondence and Lectures Manuscripts, - Notes and Proofs Allegory and the Migration of Symbols (1976) proof for German editibn literature onseorgian,architecture", 19^6 t.ms. (bibliography) Miscellaneous Box ^0' Box kl "Annotated Bibliography on Works of English Architecture', 1 l6c through l8c (arranged alphabetically by author) A-N P-Z

13 Wittkower p.12 Series IV. (Boxes 42-44): Palladian Architecture & j^ej^ij^cl T_r_end Box 42 Box 43 Box 44 Baroque Influences on... Burlington, Lord Churches Classical Influences on... Courses and Lectures (gen.) Editions English literature on... Italian architects in P. tradition Fireplaces in P. villas Jones, Inigo Landscape Gardens Manuscripts (loose) Notes (misc.) Orders, their transformation, their effects on... Palaces Patronage Proportion "Taste" in 18th c. Texts on... Venice Villas

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(D) sfumato (C) Greek temple architecture 1. All of the following are humanistic traits in the above statue by Michelangelo EXCEPT (A) use of marble (B) contrapposto stance (C) free-standing sculpture (D) sfumato (E) glorification of the human