Rudolf Wittkower (22 June 1901 – 11 October 1971) was a British art historian specializing in Italian Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, who...

ruḵ, rokh or rukh for the Persian form. According to art historian Rudolf Wittkower, the idea of the roc had its origins in the story of the fight between...

her future husband Rudolf Wittkower when she was just age 16 however they waited until 1923 to marry, due to their young ages. Rudolf began teaching at...

balustrades of colonettes as an alternative to miniature arcading. Rudolf Wittkower withheld judgement as to the inventor of the baluster and credited...

emphasised the mystical experience being undergone by the figures. Rudolf Wittkower documents the "intensification of the visionary quality" in the statues...

the three most eminent Bernini scholars of the previous generation, Rudolf Wittkower, Howard Hibbard, and Irving Lavin. As Tomaso Montanari's recent revisionist...

Lorenzo Bernini as a pendant piece to his Blessed Soul. According to Rudolf Wittkower, the sculpture is in the Palazzo di Spagna in Rome. This may well be...

were described by Rudolf Wittkower as "bizarre and ghostlike paintings of architecture, often crumbling and fantastic". Wittkower, Rudolf (1973) [1958]....

family. The complete absence of columns in the façade signified for Rudolf Wittkower a decisive turning-point in Alberti's interpretation of architecture...

footballer Rudolf Wittkower, American art historian Rudolph Koenig, German physicist Rudolf Geiger, German meteorologist and climatologist Rudolf Tombo Jr...