The essays on Renaissance architecture by Wolfgang Lotz (1912-1981), with their exemplary clarity, offer specialists and non-specialists alike a clear, scientifically precise overview of this fascinating field of study.
The essays contained in this volume represent, as a whole, the finest proof of the contribution made by Wolfgang Lotz (1912-1981) toward an understanding of the decisive nodes in the history of Italian Renaissance architecture. Based on a rigorous, free methodological approach and an intellectual attitude developed through direct confrontation with the greatest scholars of Renaissance architecture, from Rudolf Wittkower to James Ackerman, Lotz’s writings form a corpus of great scientific value, ranging from the study of certain fundamental typological questions – such as that of the origins and developments in the Renaissance of religious buildings with a central plan – to essays on the theme of graphic representation in relation to urban construction practices, studies on urban spaces like that of the Piazza Ducale of Vigevano, contributions on the works of Palladio and Sansovino.