Full Name: Geymüller, Heinrich von
Gender: male
Date Born: 1839
Date Died: 1909
Place Born: Switzerland
Home Country/ies: Switzerland
Subject Area(s): architecture (object genre), Renaissance, and sculpture (visual works)
Overview
Architectural historian of Renaissance buildings; one of the first to attempt the complex structural history of St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome; first to study Raphäel’s architectural work
Selected Bibliography
Heinrich von Geymüllers nachgelassene Schriften. Volume 1. Architektur und Religion. Basel: Spittler, 1911; Notizen über der Entwürfe zu St. Peter in Rom. 2 vols. Karlsruhe, 1868; Raffaelo Sanzio studiato come architetto con l’aiuto di nuovi documenti.
Sources
Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Research Guide to the History of Western Art. Sources of Information in the Humanities, no. 2. Chicago: American Library Association, 1982, p. 126 mentioned; Kleinbauer, W. Eugene. Modern Perspectives in Western Art History: An Anthology of 20th-Century Writings on the Visual Arts. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971, p. 85 mentioned; Bazin, Germain. Histoire de l’histoire de l’art; de Vasari à nos jours. Paris: Albin Michel, 1986, pp. 433-434, 486.