INTRODUCTIONAuthor(s): James BeckSource: Source: Notes in the History of Art, Vol. 8/9, No. 4/1 (Summer/Fall 1989), p. 1Published by: Ars Brevis Foundation, Inc.Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/23202689 .

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INTRODUCTION

This double issue of SOURCE grew out of the Columbia University symposium held on March 3 and 4, 1989, to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the retirement of Rudolf Wittkower

(1901-1971). The enormous variety of subjects and approaches is a tribute to Wittkower's method. Topics range from the history of ar chitecture to sculpture, painting, connoisseurship, artistic biography, and iconography, all areas in which he has made lasting contribu tions. The bridge between East and West as well as art of the an

cient, medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, and modern periods are rep resented, as they had been dealt with by Wittkower himself.

The contributors, all former students or colleagues, are testimony

to Wittkower's powers as an educator as well as a scholar, and they come from various parts of the world. The last portion of Witt kower's life was spent as professor and chairman of the Department

of Art History and Archaeology of Columbia University, which he built into one of the finest in the country. Here he was able to de

velop a "school" in which his diverse interests were manifest, as they are in these papers.

An updated bibliography was published in conjunction with the

symposium: The Writings of Rudolf Wittkower: A Bibliography (Rome: 1989), edited by Donald M. Reynolds and published by the Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana. The publication also contains bi

ographical information, including the obituary prepared by Howard

Hibbard, first published in Burlington Magazine 114 (1972):173-177. Wittkower's contribution to the study of the history of art has

transcended the immediate moments of his publications. His work has become a standard of the finest of modern scholarship, charac

terized, as it is, by thoroughness of research, clarity of presentation, and originality of conception.

James Beck

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