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Rudolf Wittkower, the Glossary

Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who spent much of his career in London, but was educated in Germany, and later moved to the United States.^[1]

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Academics of the Slade School of Fine Art
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Alice Davis Hitchcock Award

The Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award, established in 1949, by the Society of Architectural Historians, annually recognizes "the most distinguished work of scholarship in the history of architecture published by a North American scholar." The oldest of the six different publication awards given annually by the Society, it is named after the mother of architectural historian Henry-Russell Hitchcock.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Philosophical Society

The American Philosophical Society (APS) is an American scholarly organization and learned society founded in 1743 in Philadelphia that promotes knowledge in the humanities and natural sciences through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and community outreach.

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Andrea Palladio

Andrea Palladio (Andrea Paładio; 30 November 1508 – 19 August 1580) was an Italian Renaissance architect active in the Venetian Republic.

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Baroque

The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Columbia University

Columbia University, officially Columbia University in the City of New York, is a private Ivy League research university in New York City.

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Columbia University Press

Columbia University Press is a university press based in New York City, and affiliated with Columbia University.

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David Rosand

David Rosand (September 6, 1938 – August 8, 2014) was an American art historian, university professor and writer.

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Deborah Howard

Deborah Janet Howard, (born 1946) is a British art historian and academic. Rudolf Wittkower and Deborah Howard are academics of the University of Cambridge and British art historians.

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Dictionary of Art Historians

The Dictionary of Art Historians (DAH) is an online encyclopedia of topics relating to art historians, art critics and their dictionaries.

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Getty Research Institute

The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

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Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 159828 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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J. Paul Getty Trust

The J. Paul Getty Trust is the world's wealthiest art institution, with an estimated endowment of US$7.7 billion in 2020.

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Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of California Press on behalf of the Society of Architectural Historians.

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Leon Battista Alberti

Leon Battista Alberti (14 February 1404 – 25 April 1472) was an Italian Renaissance humanist author, artist, architect, poet, priest, linguist, philosopher, and cryptographer; he epitomised the nature of those identified now as polymaths.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Manhattan

Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.

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Margot Wittkower

Margot Wittkower, née Margot Holzmann (August 28, 1902 – July 3, 1995), was a German-American Interior designer and art historian specializing in neo-Palladian architecture and Italian Renaissance and Baroque period. Rudolf Wittkower and Margot Wittkower are 20th-century German historians, German art historians, Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United Kingdom and writers from Berlin.

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Michelangelo

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Penguin Books

Penguin Books Limited is a British publishing house.

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Pythagoras

Pythagoras of Samos (Πυθαγόρας; BC) was an ancient Ionian Greek philosopher, polymath and the eponymous founder of Pythagoreanism.

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Renaissance architecture

Renaissance architecture is the European architecture of the period between the early 15th and early 16th centuries in different regions, demonstrating a conscious revival and development of certain elements of ancient Greek and Roman thought and material culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Wittkower

Also known as Rudolph Witkower, Rudolph Wittkower, Wittkower, Wittkower, Rudolf.

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Academics of the Slade School of Fine Art

Academics of the Warburg Institute

German architectural historians

German architecture writers

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