Rudolf and Margot Wittkower papers, 1916-1995

Rudolf and Margot Wittkower papers, 1916-1995

Summary Information

At a Glance

Call No.:
MS#1366
Bib ID:
4079491 View CLIO record
Creator(s):
Wittkower, Rudolf; Wittkower, Margot
Repository:
Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Physical Description:
19.5 linear feet (53 boxes 8 card files)
Language(s):
In English, German, Italian, and French.
Access:
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Description

Scope and Contents

Working files of the architectural historians Rudolf and Margot 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, 1934-1955, and at Columbia University. There are also 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 emmendations, 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. Materials created by or related to Rudolf Wittkower's wife, the architect and interior designer Margot Holzmann Wittkower, can be found primarily in Series II, IV, V, and VI. Material created or maintained solely by Margot Wittkower is located in Series VI; however, material she shared with Rudolf Wittkower is located in Series II, IV, and V.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged by topic. Boxes 1-32: Series I; Boxes 33-38: Series II; Boxes 39-41: Series III; Boxes 42-55: Series IV; Boxes 56-60: Series V; selected folders in Boxes 45-46, 56, 58-60: Series VI.

Using the Collection

Restrictions on Access

You will need to make an appointment in advance to use this collection material in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room. You can schedule an appointment once you've submitted your request through your Special Collections Research Account.

This collection is located off-site. You will need to request this material at least three business days in advance to use the collection in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library reading room.

This collection has no restrictions.

Box 47 of this collection is missing as of January 2023.

Terms Governing Use and Reproduction

Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

Preferred Citation

Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Rudolf and Margot Wittkower papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

Related Materials

Fiametta Olschki Papers relating to Leo S. Olschki (Firm) and Olschki family members, 1904-1994: This collection, created by Rudolf and Margot Wittkower's daughter in law, Fiammetta Olschki, includes personal family correspondence between the Wittkowers and their son, Mario. At Stanford University.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Wittkower, Margot. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1974. Accession number--M-74.

Papers: Source of acquisition--Wittkower, Margot. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--05/27/1992. Accession number--M-92-05-27.

Typescript of Art & Architecture.: Source of acquisition--2293B. Method of acquisition--Purchase; Date of acquisition--03/10/1997. Accession number--M-97-03-10.

Gift of Mrs. Margot Wittkower, 1974; 1977; 1979; 1983; 1992.

About the Finding Aid / Processing Information

Columbia University Libraries, Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/1989.

Papers Processed KM 11/25/1992.

Typescript of Art & Architecture. Processed HR 10/13/2000.

Boxes 45-60 were processed by Celeste Brewer and added to the finding aid in January 2023. Series III through VI were added to the collection in 1992, though boxes 45-60 were not processed until January 2023. Series V and VI were also added to the finding aid and materials were arranged accordingly at that time. Original folders were replaced with acid free folders where necessary, and unfoldered materials were placed in folders, particularly in Box 59. Finally, the collection title was changed from the Rudolf Wittkower papers to the Rudolf and Margot Wittkower papers, to reflect Margot Wittkower's role in creating its contents.

Revision Description

2009-06-26 File created.

2014-03-12 XML document instance created by Catherine C. Ricciardi

2019-05-20 EAD was imported spring 2019 as part of the ArchivesSpace Phase II migration.

2023-01-27 Boxes 45-57 added to finding aid by CLB

2023-01-31 Boxes 58-60 added to finding aid by CLB

Biographical / Historical

Rudolf Wittkower (1901-1971) was professor of art history at Columbia University, 1956-1969. He was born in Berlin and married Margot Holzmann (1902-1995) in 1923. The Wittkowers, who were Jewish, fled Germany in 1933. The couple settled in London, where Rudolf taught at the University of London's Warburg Institute from 1934 to 1956, and University College, London's Slade School of Fine Art from 1949 until 1956. Margot worked as an interior designer and lectured on architectural history. The Wittkowers then moved to the United States, where Rudolf chaired the department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University. Rudolf Wittkower died in New York City in 1971. Margot Wittkower continued to research and lecture on architectural history throughout the 1970s and 1980s at Columbia University and elsewhere. She died in New York City in 1995. The Wittkowers had one child, Mario.

Subject Headings

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Genre/Form
Architects
Articles
Bibliographies
Card files
Drawings (visual works)
Essays
Galley proofs
Lectures
Manuscripts for publication
Notes (documents)
Proofs (printed matter)
Reviews (documents)
Sketches
architectural drawings (visual works)
Name
Basilica di San Pietro in Vaticano
Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680
Bramante, Donato, 1444?-1514
Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of, 1694-1753
Carracci, Agostino, 1557-1602
Carracci, Annibale, 1560-1609
Carracci, Lodovico, 1555-1619
Columbia University -- Faculty
Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Raphael, 1483-1520
University of London
Place
Rome (Italy) -- History
Subject
Architecture
Architecture -- Italy
Art
Art historians
Artists
Artists as architects
Arts -- Italy
Arts, Baroque
Arts, German
Arts, Renaissance
Cathedrals -- Italy
College teachers
Painting
Sculptors
Sculpture

Series I: Research and writing, circa 1930s-1977, bulk 1950s-1971

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.

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.


Subseries I.1: Artists


Box 1

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)


Box 1

Bernini at the court of Louis XIV: Lecture


Box 1

Bernini at the court of Louis XIV: Bust of Louis XIV. Lectures, 1949 U.S.A., 1949


Box 1

Bernini-Poussin: Classical Models. International Congress, New York, 1961


Box 1

Bernini: The Complex of St. Peter's


Box 1

Bernini: Correspondence, 1956-1970.


Box 1

Bernini: Countess Matilda, Bronze.


Box 1

Bernini: Documents 1 (Bust Charles I)


Box 1

Bernini: Documents 2


Box 1

Bernini: England


Box 1

Bernini: Equestrian Monument of Louis XIV. Lecture


Box 2

Bernini: Equestrian Monument of Louis XIV. Notes 1.


Box 2

Bernini: Equestrian Monument of Louis XIV. Notes 2


Box 2

Bernini: Influence in England.


Box 2

Bernini: Lecture Hertziana, 1955


Box 2

Bernini: Lecture. Carleton University, Ottawa, November, 1967


Box 2

Bernini: Lecture. Los Angeles, 1967


Box 2

Bernini: Sculptures. Lecture


Box 2

Bernini: Sculptures. Lectures: Bonn, 1933; Rome, 1955; Detroit, May 1965; Metropolitan, April 1956, 1955, 1965 May, 1956 April, 1933


Box 2

Bernini: Letter after return from Paris (unpublished)


Box 2

Bernini: Letters, Bernini, letter 1652 Trivulzio, letter 1656. Xerox, Ms copy. Milan, 1652


Box 2

Bernini: Material 1966 Edition, 1966


Box 2

Bernini: Notes


Box 2

Bernini: Pelican Draft


Box 3

Borromini: Lecture, Rome, 1967. Correspondence, 1966-1969


Box 3

Borromini: Lecture, Rome, 1967. English text, Italian text, Italian proofs-publication, Appendices, Postcript. May 10, 1967. Rome, Capitol, Inaugural lecture of Borromini Celebration. Personalitá e destino di Francesco Borrominirromini: Drafts, Notes


Box 3

Bramante: Tempietto. Comparative Material


Box 3

Bramante: Tempietto. Correspondence, 1965-1971


Box 3

Bramante: Tempietto. Inscriptions & history


Box 3

Bramante: Tempiette. Interpolation of inscribed figures


Box 3

Bramante: Tempietto. Notes


Box 3

Bramante: Tempietto. Photos


Box 4

Breughel: Lecture.


Box 4

Brunelleschi: Draft for lectures. Material and Ms. with correspondence.


Box 4

Brunelleschi: Optics.


Box 4

Cafà


Box 4

Carracci Minutiae-Festschrift (?) Dr. Tietze


Box 4

Carracci: Miscellany


Box 4

Carracci: Notes.


Box 4

Comacchini: Equestrian Monument of Charlemagne


Box 4

Cortona, Pietro da


Box 4

Dupérac: Manuscript, translation, notes


Box 5

Giotto: Lecture


Box 5

Hugo van der Goest Lecture


Box 5

Goya: Lecture


Box 5

Gruenwald: Lecture


Box 5

Guarini Congress


Box 5

Inigo Jones: Lecture-Notes


Box 5

Le Corbusier: Notes-Lecture, 1961


Box 5

Longhena: Venetian Baroque-Vienna. Notes


Box 5

Michelangelot Vorlesungen. Courtauld Institute, 1935-1936


Box 5

Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture II


Box 5

Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture III


Box 5

Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture IV


Box 5

Michelangelo: Courtauld Lecture V


Box 5

Michelangelo: Courtanld Lecture VI


Box 5

Michelangelo: Sistine Ceiling Lecture


Box 5

Michelangelo: Lecture-Liverpool School of Architecture, 1943.


Box 5

Michelangelo: Technique. Lecture-Oxford, 1960


Box 5

Michelangelo: Julius Tomb, Medici Chapel. Lecture-Courtauld Institute, 1939


Box 5

Michelangelo: Notes (before 1933)


Box 6

Nanni di Baccio Bigi and Michelangelo . Festschrift Middledorf


Box 6

Piranesi as Architect . Sssay and Notes


Box 6

Piranesi: and Egyptomania. April, 1969 (also notes), April, 1969


Box 6

Poussin


Box 6

Raphael: Lecture-Oberlin, 1963


Box 6

Raphael: Notes


Box 6

Raphael: Stanze lectures


Box 6

Rainaldi: Carlo Rainaldi und die Roemlsche Architektur des Hoch Barock . German original text. English translation, notes


Box 6

Rembrandt: Lecture.


Box 6

Vittone: Lecture-Munich, 1956 Blunt Festschrift, 1966 Harvard, 1977., 1956, 1966


Box 6

Vittone: Notes


Subseries I.2: Subjects


Box 7

Academies: Three lectures.


Box 7

L'Arcadia e il Giorgionismo, 1960.


Box 7

Architecture: Chamberss Encyclopedia


Box 7

Art: 1650-1700. Cartridge Modern History, 1960


Box 7

Art Theory-Art Criticism-Quality (Bibliography)


Box 7

Artists' Conduct: Lectures, November, 1961.


Box 7

Artists' Conduct: Emory University, 1963


Box 7

Baroque


Box 7

Baroque: Architecture, A.A. Lectures


Box 7

Baroque: Architecture. Course


Box 7

Baroque (Italian): Architecture. Course-Cambridge, England, 1970


Box 7

Baroque: Barokarchitektur in Italien


Box 7

Baroque Art and the Jesuit Contribution. Lecture and Notes


Box 7

Baroque Art: The Jesuit Contribution-t.ms., 27 p.5 ms. corrections


Box 7

Baroque as a Critical Term. Bryn Mawr, 1960


Box 8

Baroque: Le cupole di Vittone.


Box 8

Baroque: Italian Painting, 17-18 c. Spr, 1963


Box 8

Baroque: Lecture-II Barocco in Italia. Convegno, Rome, 1960


Box 8

Baroque: Rome-Lectures, 1957


Box 8

Baroque: Louvre


Box 8

Baroque: Misc. Notes-1


Box 8

Baroque: Misc. Notes-2


Box 8

Baroque: Misc. Notes-3


Box 8

Baroque: Oil Bozzetti Baroque


Box 8

Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres I. Baratta, Bolgi


Box 8

Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres II


Box 8

Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres III. Rondone, Rusconi


Box 8

Bafcoque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres IV


Box 8

Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres V. Raggi


Box 8

Baroque: Roman Baroque Sculptors: Oeuvres VI. Guidi


Box 9

Baroque: Sculpture Course, 1961


Box 9

Baroque: Late Baroque Sculpture-Notes


Box 9

Baroque: Sculpture. Notes


Box 9

Baroque: Sculpture. Towns Topographical


Box 9

Baroque: Topography: Roman Churches 1


Box 9

Baroque: Topography: Roman Churches 2


Box 9

Baroque (Italian): Painting-Lectures


Box 9

Baroque: Painting-Notes


Box 9

Baroque: Painting and Sculpture. Course I-Slade Lecturer, University College, London


Box 9

Baroque: Painting and Sculpture. Course II-Lectures, Slade School, University College, London


Box 10

Baroquei Slade Lectures, University College, London


Box 10

Baroque: Venetian Course, 1964


Box 10

Baroque: Centralised Churches. Course-New York.


Box 10

Centrally Planned Buildings


Box 10

Chartres: Lecture


Box 10

Florence: Painting, 17th Century


Box 10

Fontana di Trevi: Notes


Box 10

Harmony and Golden Section


Box 10

Inspiration and Reason in the Arts


Box 10

Oval Churches


Box 11

Painting: Notes-Four Lectures on Approach to Painting, Charter House, 1942 (?), 1942


Box 11

Painting: Dutch


Box 11

Painting: Italian, 17th Century. Lecture, Royal Academy, 1951


Box 11

Painting: Italian-Notes


Box 11

Painting: Portraiture-Piero, Titian, Reynolds


Box 11

Painting: Studio Practises. Development of Drawing. Lectures


Box 11

Painting: Venetian, 15th-16th Centuries. Lecture, Cologne, 1932


Box 11

Patronage: Lectures I-Suger, Communes, Middle Classes


Box 11

Patronage: Lectures II-Court Patronage


Box 11

Patronage: Lectures III-19th-20th Centuries; Artist and Patron


Box 11

Ponce: Museum, Article for Apollo


Box 11

Problems of Space


Box 11

Religion and Renaissance Architecture: Lecture


Box 12

Renaissance: Architecture and the Classical Tradition


Box 12

Renaissance: Architecture, Drafts and Excerpts


Box 12

Renaissance: Architecture. Ms. and Catalogue of Buildings


Box 12

Renaissance: Architecture, Mimeographed Material


Box 12

Renaissance: Architecture, Notes


Box 12

Renaissance: Chapter-Cambridge Modern History


Box 12

Renaissance: Lecture, Cleveland, 1964 (unfinished), 1964


Box 12

Renaissance: Course. Notes I


Box 12

Renaissance: Course. Notes II


Box 12

Renaissance: Course. Notes III


Box 12

Renaissance: Course, 1963


Box 12

Renaissance: Course. Science: Leonardo


Box 12

Renaissance: Course-Science. Notes


Box 12

Renaissance: Hieroglyphics in the Early Renaissance Proofs, Editor's Notes Binghamton


Box 13

Renaissance: Notes


Box 13

Renaissance: Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian. Lecture


Box 13

Renaissance and Antiquity: Course, 1959-1960. Mimeographed material


Box 13

Renaissance and Antiquity: Course, 1959-1960. Bibliography


Box 13

Renaissance and Antiquity: Iconographic Lectures


Box 13

Renaissance: Revival of Antiquity. Nine Lectures, Courtauld


Box 13

Renaissance: Revival of Antiquity. Notes. Also-Science


Box 13

Renaissance: Revival of Antiquity. Notes


Box 13

Renaissance: Sculpture


Box 13

Rome I: Ancient, Medieval


Box 13

Rome II: Renaissance Town-Planning, etc.


Box 13

Rome III: Renaissance (Antiquarian)


Box 13

Rome IV: Humanists


Box 13

Rome V: Notes


Box 14

St. Peter's: Akten-Archivio della Fabbrica


Box 14

St. Peter's: Baptistry


Box 14

St. Peter's: Dome. Correspondence*


Box 14

St. Peter's: Dome. "La Cupola di San Pietro di Michelangelo" 1962 corrected proof, 1962


Box 14

St. Peter's: Dome. Drawings and Calculations


Box 14

St. Peter's: Dome. Manuscript


Box 14

St. Peter's: Dome. Notes


Box 14

St. Peter's: Dome. Notes


Box 14

St. Peter's: Dome. Notes, drawing


Box 15

St. Peter's: Bernini Drawings I


Box 15

St. Peter's: Bernini Drawings II


Box 15

St. Peter's: Kuppelraum (Gallery Proofs)


Box 15

Salute: Manuscript (Copy)


Box 15

S. Maria della Salute: Manuscript and Notes


Box 15

Sculpture: Sculptor's Workshop. Lecture, Glasgow, 1971


Box 15

Sculpture: Lectures, with Notes


Box 15

Significance of the University Museum: Lecture, Duke University, 1967


Box 16

Slade Lectures I-IX (1). History of Art, General


Box 16

Slade Lectures I-IX (2}. History of Art, General


Box 16

Slade Lectures X. High Art, Popular Art, Folk Art


Box 16

Slade Lectures: Notes


Box 16

Slade Lectures: Precis


Box 16

La Teoria Classica e La Nuova Sensibilita. Lecture, Venice, September, 1965


Box 16

Tridentium-Counterreform-Allegory-New Churches


Box 16

Varallo Congress, 1968


Box 16

Westminster Abbey: Draft for a film, 1945


Box 16

World Chronicles


Subseries I.3: Book Manuscripts


Box 17

Alberti Rucellai: notes


Box 17

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


Subseries I.4: Proofs


Box 21

Books and Articles


Box 22

Books and Articles


Subseries I.5: Notes

(in card file boxes)


Box 23

Baronue Sculptors: A-L; Algardi; Duqesnoy


Box 24

Baroque Sculptors: M-Z; Outside Rome; General


Box 25

Baroque: General; Bernini


Box 26

Baroque Sculpture


Box 27

Baroque Topography; Archivio dellla Fabbrica di S. Pietro


Box 28

Bernini: L.fe, Sculpture, Painting


Box 29

Carracci


Box 30

Miscellaneous notes


Subseries I.6: Printed Material


Box 31

Annotated copies of his books for later editions


Box 32

Books, offprints

Series II: Sculpture: Process and Principle and The Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower, bulk 1977-1978

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).


A-H


Box 33

Arcadia e il Giorgionismo: t.mss.


Box 33

Arcadia e il Giorgionismp: t.ms. drafts; notes; bibliography


Box 33

Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism--Proportions: notes


Box 33

Art History as a Discipline and Study of Art History: t.mss.; notes


Box 33

Balusters: drawings; notes


Box 33

Baroque Art--The Jesuit Contribution: t.ms.; notes


Box 33

Bernini: t.ms. (revisions for Phaidon 2d. ed.)


Box 33

Bernini--Palladio and Bernini: t.mss.; notes


Box 33

Bernini's P. S. Piedro: t.ms.


Box 33

Borromini: t.ms.


Box 33

Bramante and Circle: t.ms.; notes


Box 33

Critical Terms: Mannerism; Baroque: t.mss.


Box 33

Death and Resurrection: t.ms.; notes


Box 33

El Greco: t.mss.; notes


Box 33

Guarini: t.ms.


Box 33

Hieroglyphics in the Early Renaissance: t.ms.; t.ms. draft; notes


I-Me


Box 34

Imitation, Eclecticism and Genius: t.ms.; notes


Box 34

Individualism: notes


Box 34

Individualism in Art: t.mss.; t.ms. drafts; proofs; notes


Box 34

Interpretation of Visual Symbols: t.mss: notes


Box 34

Juvarra, Filippo: t.ms.; notes


Box 34

Mannerist Architecture: t.ms.; proofs


Box 34

Marco Polo: t.mss.; notes


Box 34

Marvels of the East--India: notes


Box 34

Menicantonio Sketchbook: t.mss. drafts; notes


Mi-Non-European Influences (1)


Box 35

Michelangelo--Esequie--Appendices: t.mss.; notes: drawings


Box 35

Michelangelo--Esequie--Florence's Tribute to Michelangelo: t.mss.; notes


Box 35

Michelangelo--Esequie--Catalogue: notes; drawings


Box 35

Michelangelo--Esequie--Notes: notes; drawings (l)


Box 35

Michelangelo--Esequie--Notes: notes; drawings (2)


Box 35

Michelangelo--Laurenziana: notes; drawings


Box 35

Michelangelo--Laurenziana: t.ms. : notes; drawings (English text)


Box 35

Michelangelo--Laurenziana: t.ms. (German text)


Box 35

Non-European Influences--Animal Style and Celtic: notes; bibliography


Box 35

Non-European Influences--Animals; Monsters: notes; bibliography


Box 35

Non-European Influences--China: notes; bibliography


Box 35

Non-European Influences--Classical and Anti-classical Trends: notes; bibliography


Box 35

Non-European Influences--Course (Columbia, 1969): notes; bibliography


Box 35

Non-European Influences--Europe and the Near East: t.mss.


Non-European Influences (2)-V


Box 36

Non-European Influences--Illustrations: notes; bibliography


Box 36

Non-European Influences--India: notes; bibliography


Box 36

Non-European Influences--Islam: notes; bibliography


Box 36

Non-European Influences--Miscellaneous: notes; bibliography


Box 36

Non-European Influences--Monsters: notes


Box 36

Non-European Influences--Near East: notes; bibliography


Box 36

Non-European Influences--Nineteenth Century (Modern Art-Primitivism): notes; bibliography


Box 36

Non-European Influences--Venice: notes; bibliography


Box 36

Palladio's Influence on the Development of Venetian Religious Architecture: t.mss.; bibliography


Box 36

Perspective Past and Present: t.ms. draft; notes


Box 36

Piranesi e il Gusto Egiziano: t.ms. (English trans.); bibliography


Box 36

Proportion--Literature: notes


Box 36

Rainaldo, Carlo: proofs; lists of illustrations


Box 36

Renaissance Architecture and the Classical Tradition: t.mss.; list of illustrations


Box 36

Sacri Monti: t.mss.; notes; drawings


Box 36

St. Peter's Dome: t.mss.; notes


Box 36

Settignano, Desiderio da: t.mss.; notes


Box 36

Some Observations on Medieval and Renaissance Proportions: t.mss.


Box 36

Transformation of Minerva in Renaissance Imagery: notes


Box 36

Vittone's Domes: t.mss.


Sculpture


Box 37

Sculpture Lectures, 1-12: t.mss.; notes; bibliography; list of illustrations Sculpture; Processes and Principles: galley and page proofs


Collected Essays of Rudolf Wittkower


Box 38

Galley and page proofs for volumes 3 and 4

Series III: Lectures and publishing, 1931-circa 1980s, bulk 1946-1971

The correspondence consists of invitations to give lectures, 1955-1971 including the Slade Lectures, 1970-1971 and correspondence and lectures for the "Congress on Proportion," Milan, 1951; as well as correspondence and clippings related to reviews of Wittkower's works. 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); entries and notes for an unpublished annotated bibliography of works on English architecture from the 16th through the 18th centuries. There are also files related to publishing Wittkower's works, and lectures given by Wittkower at universities in the United States and Europe.


Correspondence re: Lectures by Wittkower


Box 39

Invitations for Lectures Accepted, 1955-1971


Box 39

Lecture Tour, Canada, 1967


Box 39

Slade Lectures, Cambridge, UK, 1970-1971


Congress on Proportion, Milan, 1951


Box 39

Correspondence and Lectures


Manuscripts, Notes, and Proofs


Box 39

Allegory and the Migration of Symbols (1976) proof for German edition literature on Georgian Architecture", 1946 t.ms. (bibliography), 1946


Box 39

Miscellaneous


"Annotated Bibliography on Works of English Architecture",1 16C through 18C (arranged alphabetically by author)


Box 40

A-N


Box 41

P-Z


Box 53 Folder 14

German to English architectural dictionary, undated


Box 54

Alphabetical files on book publishing and university lectures: A-Penguin, circa 1960s-1970s


Box 55

Alphabetical files on book publishing and university lectures: Phaidon-Z, circa 1960s-1970s


Box 55

Reviews of Wittkower's works: correspondence and clippings, circa 1960s-1980s


Box 59

Rudolf Wittkower lecture programs and report, 1931-1971, 2 folders

Series IV: Palladian architecture and related trends, circa 1930s-1987

Lectures, notes, architectural sketches, and clippings mostly relating to Palladian architecture and its British champion, Lord Burlington, 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.


Box 42

Baroque Influences on...


Box 42

Burlington, Lord


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Churches


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Classical Influences on...


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Courses and Lectures (gen.)


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Editions


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English literature on...


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Italian architects in P. tradition


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Fireplaces in P. villas


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Jones, Inigo


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Landscape Gardens


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Manuscripts (loose)


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Notes (misc.)


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Orders, their transformation, their effects on...


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Palaces


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Patronage


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Proportion


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"Taste" in 18th c.


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Texts on...


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Venice


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Villas


Box 45 Folder 1-4

Lectures: Lord Burlington, 1942-1950, undated, 4 folders


Box 45 Folder 5

Lectures: British Art and the Mediterranean, 1948


Box 45 Folder 6

Lectures: RIBA Lecture on Inigo Jones, 1952


Box 45 Folder 7

Article reprints on Palladio, 1950-1954


Box 45 Folder 10

Biographical sketch of Lord Burlington, undated


Box 45 Folder 11-12

Correspondence on Lord Burlington, 1946-1987, 2 folders

Rudolf and Margot Wittkower's correspondence.


Box 45 Folder 14

John Wilton-Ely, "Lord Burlington and the Virtuoso Portrait", 1983


Box 47

Unidentified mixed materials, undated

Box 47 is missing as of January 2023.


Box 48 Folder 1-14

Research files and lectures: Chiswick House and other buildings by Lord Burlington, 1944-1987, undated, 14 folders

Research material gathered by Margot and Rudolf Wittkower; lectures by Rudolf Wittkower.


Box 49 Folder 1-8

Research files on Lord Burlington's collections: architectural plans and drawings, paintings, and library, 1935-1976, 8 folders

Research material gathered by Margot and Rudolf Wittkower; lectures by Rudolf Wittkower.


Box 50 Folder 1-14

Research files on Lord Burlington's circle and Palladian architecture, circa 1930s-1973, 14 folders


Box 51 Folder 1-9

Lord Burlington bibliography and desiderata, 1948-1983, undated, 9 folders

Mostly clippings and notecards.


Box 52 Folder 1-4

Lord Burlington building chronology: notecards, undated, 4 folders


Box 53 Folder 1-10

Photographs of Palladian buildings, with identifications, undated, 10 folders


Box 53 Folder 11-13

Photographs of English architecture, with identifications, undated, 3 folders

Series V: Personal, 1902-1990s, bulk 1920s-1970s

Contains personal and administrative materials belonging to Rudolf and Margot Wittkower, including their personal and family correspondence, general correspondence, and records of Rudolf Wittkower's travels, academic affiliations, and honors received. While correspondence files shared by Margot and Rudolf Wittkower are located in this series, additional material created by or related to Margot Wittkower is in Series VI.


Box 56

Honors received, circa 1960s-1980s


Box 56

Library correspondence: donations from Rudolf Wittkower's library, 1970s-1980s


Box 56

Individual correspondence, circa 1960s-early 1980s


Box 57

Correspondence, A-O and uncategorized, 1950s-1980s


Box 58

Correspondence, P-Z, 1950s-1980s


Box 58

Family and personal correspondence, 1902-1948, 2 folders


Box 58

Rudolf Wittkower correspondence, 1916-1958, 3 folders


Box 58

Rudolf Wittkower letters to Margot Wittkower, 1919-1934, 5 folders; Originals and photocopies.

With partial translations and timeline of Margot Wittkower's travels by Margot Wittkower.


Box 58

Margot Wittkower letters to Rudolf Wittkower, 1919-1937, 3 folders


Box 58

Rudolf and Margot Wittkower correspondence, 1924-1949


Box 59

Rudolf and Margot Wittkower correspondence, 1915-1920, 1934-1968, 3 folders

1916-1920 correspondence on youth movement, Wandervogel and World War I.


Box 59

Rudolf Wittkower photographs, 1916-1960


Box 59

Rudolf Wittkower drafts and notes, circa 1920s-1958, 5 folders

Including course notes from the 1920s, research files and drafts on Roman sculpture and the Baroque, circa 1940, a diary and sketches from a Piedmont architecture seminar, 1958.


Box 59

Watercolor sketches by Rudolf Wittkower, circa 1918


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Columbia University, 1955-1969


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Max Planck Gesellschaft, 1956


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Rudolf Wittkower honorary symposium, 1989


Box 59

Rudolf Wittkower travel diaries, 1948-1959, undated


Box 59

Rudolf Wittkower sketchbooks, 1921, undated


Box 59

United States visa, 1956


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Rudolf Wittkower photographs, 1916-1960


Box 59

Printed material, 1961, 1966, undated


Box 60

Diplomas, plaques, and various oversize duplicated wills from British archives, 1960s-1990s

Series VI: Margot Wittkower, circa 1920-1995

Includes Margot Wittkower's research and personal material dating from throughout her life and career. Additional material created or referenced by Margot Wittkower may be located in the other series of the collection as well. Margot Wittkower was an architect and interior designer in her own right: the series includes photographs and original design sketches from her career as an interior designer dating from the 1930s through the early 1950s, as well as exhibition and lecture materials on housing design and the history of the British Workers' Educational Association. She also contributed to and began to adapt Rudolf Wittkower's work on a biography of Lord Burlington after his death in 1971, and lectured on Burlington and neo-Palladian architecture at Columbia University and elsewhere in the 1970s and 1980s.


Box 45 Folder 8-9

Lectures by Margot Wittkower: Lord Burlington, 1974, undated, 2 folders


Box 45 Folder 13

Margot Wittkower correspondence with Christopher White, Mellon Foundation, 1977


Box 46 Folder 1-12

Lord Burlington biography, 1950-1983, undated, 12 folders

Drafts, research notes, and subject files for a biography of Lord Burlington by Margot Wittkower, incorporating research by Rudolf Wittkower.


Box 56

Margot Wittkower files, 1970s-1980s

Correspondence and clippings: Columbia University affiliation rules, University of California oral history program, clippings on Anthony Blunt and neo-Palladian architecture, Jewish Museum correspondence about Ephraim family photographs.


Box 58

Margot Wittkower correspondence, 1950, 1994-1995, 2 folders


Box 59

Margot Wittkower correspondence, 1934-1990


Box 59

Margot Wittkower clippings, 1934, 1974


Box 59

Margot Wittkower correspondence with Jacques and Beatrice Savary, 1931-1965


Box 59

Margot Holzmann Wittkower interior design work and photographs, 1937-circa 1950s, 2 folders

Oversized artwork moved to Box 60.


Box 59

Workers' Educational Association housing lecture and exhibition materials by Margot Wittkower, 1943-1944, 2 folders


Box 59

Margot Wittkower offprints, 1981-1990


Box 59

Warburg Institute illustrated guide, 1955


Box 60

Margot Holzmann Wittkower oversize interior design work, circa 1920s-1950s