Volume 22, Number 5 · April 3, 1975
A Great Art Historian
By Anthony Blunt
Gothic vs. Classic: Architectural Projects in Seventeenth-Century Italy
by Rudolf Wittkower
Braziller, 192 pp., $4.95 (paper)
Palladio and Palladianism
by Rudolf Wittkower
Braziller, 192 pp., $22.50
Rudolf Wittkower, who died in 1971, was one of the most influential of contemporary writers on art history and one of the finest teachers in the subject. There is something deceptively simple about his writings. The facts are set out so clearly, one conclusion follows another so easily, the resultant point is so obviously true that one is tempted to say: 'Surely I could have thought of all that myself'; but in fact the whole structure is founded on a far greater accumulation of knowledge than the author ever displays and on a profound understanding of art-historical problems which is never allowed to become obtrusive.
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