"The author summarizes in this book his studies on Renaissance architecture. By combining a searching interpretation of contemporary sources with a detailed analysis of the monuments, he disposes once and for all of the old, purely aesthetic of Renaissance architecture with other manifestiations of the human mind, such as music, philosophy and science, opens up entirely new vistas. The religious symbolism of the Renaissance church and Renaissance conceptions of proportion are discussed, framing sections on Alberti and Palladio, the two principal representative if humanist architecture" - Publisher.