GENERAL SURVEYS AND REFERENCE BOOKS
K. CLARK, The nude, various editions
G. DOGO Guide to artistic Italy, 1976 (One of the many useful and well illustrated samplers of the art treasures of Italy).
THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF WORLD ART, 1959-68. Published by McGraw-Hill, this set is useful for articles, bibliographies and illustrations.
B. FLETCHER A history of architecture on the comparative method. Latest edition (18th), 1975.
J. FLEMING / H. HONOUR / N. PEVSNER The Penguin dictionary of architecture, 1966.
E. H. GOMBRICH The story of art, rev. ed. 1978.
M. GREENHALGH The classical tradition in art, 1978.
J. R. HALE A concise encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance, 1981.
J. HALL Dictionary of subjects and symbols in art, 1974.
J. HALL, A history of ideas and images in Italian art, New York 1983
F. HARTT A history of Italian renaissance art: painting, sculpture, architecture, 3rd. ed. 1980.
W. L. LANGER An encyclopaedia of world history, ancient mediaeval and modern, chronologically arranged, many eds.
C. LLOYD, 1,773 milestones of art: a pictorial survey of painting, sculpture and architecture of Western art, New York 1985
R. MAIR, Key dates in art history from 600BC to the present, Oxford 1979
P. & L. MURRAY Dictionary of art and artists, rev. ed. 1968.
N. PEVSNER An outline of European architecture, many eds.
M. POINTON History of Art; a students' handbook, 2nd ed., 1986
J.B. ROSS & M.M. McLAUGHLIN The portable Renaissance reader, rev. ed., 1968, and now available as a Penguin, 1977 (a splendid anthology of contemporary writings to give you the flavour of the Renaissance).
C. VERMEULE European art and the classical past, 1964.
F. AMES-LEWIS Drawing in Early Renaissance Italy, 1981
F. AMES-LEWIS & J. WRIGHT Drawing in the Italian Renaissance workshop, 1983
C. L. EASTLAKE, Methods and materials of painting of the great schools and masters, 2 vols, 1960
S. LAMBERT Drawing. Technique and purpose. An introduction to looking at drawings, 1984
G. VASARI Vasari on technique, trans L. S. Maclehose, 1960
R. WITTKOWER, Sculpture: processes and principles, 1977
Most volumes relevant to the courses we teach are in the Departmental Slide Room. All are in the University Library. Only a ^Uselection^u from this series is given here.
J. BECKWITH, Early Christian and Byzantine art, 1970
BOETHIUS and J.B. WARD-PERKINS, Etruscan and Roman architecture, 1970
J. FREEDBERG Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, 1970. H. HEYDENREICH / W. LOTZ Architecture in Italy, 1400-1600, 1974.
A.W. LAWRENCE, Greek architecture, rev. ed., 1983
C. SEYMOUR Sculpture in Italy, 1400-1500, 1966.
D. STRONG, Roman art, 1976
J.E.C.T. WHITE Art and architecture in Italy, 1250-1400, 1966.
ANTIQUE ART AND THE ANCIENT WORLD
B. ANDREAE The art of Rome, 1977.
B. ASHMOLE & N. YALOURIS, Olympia: the sculptors of the temple of Zeus, 1967
R. BRILLIANT Roman art from the Republic to Constantine, 1974.
F. BROMMER, The sculptures of the Parthenon, 1979
G.M.A. HANFMANN Roman art, 1975.
M. HENIG A handbook of Roman art, 1983.
A.H.M. JONES The decline of the ancient world, 1966.
G.M. RICHTER A handbook of Greek art (many editions).
D.E. STRONG The classical world, 1965.
The politics and institutions of the Middle Ages helped form the Renaissance world. The following selection will help your understanding of that process.
C. BROOKE Europe in the Central Middle Ages 962-1154, rev. ed. 1975.
R.H.C. DAVIS A history of medieval Europe from Constantine to Saint Louis, rev. ed. 1970.
J.H. MUNDY Europe in the High Middle Ages 1150-1309, 1973.
D. WALEY Later mediaeval Europe, from St. Louis to Luther, rev. ed. 1975.
P. WHITTING Byzantium: an introduction, rev. ed., 1981.
BLUNT Artistic theory in Italy, 1450-1600, 1940.
S. A. EDGERTON, The heritage of Giotto's geometry : art and science on
the eve of the scientific revolution, 1991.
R.W. LEE Ut pictura poesis: the humanistic theory of painting, 1967.
I. A. RICHTER, The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, 1980.
M. ROSKILL Dolce's "Aretino" and Venetian art theory of the Cinquecento, 1968
L. VENTURI History of art criticism, rev. ed., 1964.
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL CONTEXT
F. ANTAL Florentine painting and its social background, 1947.
M. BARASCH, Giotto and the language of gesture, 1987
H. BARON, In search of Florentine civic humanism : essays on the transition from medieval to modern thought, 1988.
M. BAXANDALL Painting and experience in fifteenth-century Italy. A primer in the social history of pictorial style, 1972.
M. BAXANDALL, Giotto and the orators: hunanist observers of painting in Italy and the discovery of pictorial composition 1350-1450, 1971.
G. BRUCKER Renaissance Florence, 1969.
P. BURKE The Renaissance, 1964.
P. BURKE Culture and society in Renaissance Italy, 1972 (paperback edition is entitled "Tradition and innovation in Renaissance Italy", 1974).
D.S. CHAMBERS Patrons and artists in the Italian Renaissance, 1970.
C. H. CLOUGH, "Federigo da Montefeltro's patronage of the arts, 1468-82", Journal of the Warburg & Courtauld Institutes 36, 1973, 129-44
E. G. COCHRANE, Historians and historiography in the Italian Renaissance, 1981.
B. COLE The Renaissance artist at work, 1983.
D. E. COSGROVE, The Palladian landscape : geographical change and its cultural representations in sixteeenth century Italy, 1993.
C. GILBERT (ed) Renaissance art, 1970 (essays by various authors).
R. GOFFEN, Piety and patronage in Renaissance Venice : Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans, 1986.
E. H. GOMBRICH Norm and form. Studies in the art of the Renaissance, 1966
E.H. GOMBRICH Symbolic images. Studies in the art of the Renaissance, 1972.
E.H. GOMBRICH The heritage of Apelles. Studies in the art of the Renaissance, 1976.
E. GRAFTON (editor), Rome reborn: the Vatican Library and Renaissance culture, 1993.
D. HAY The Italian Renaissance in its historical background, 1962.
D. HAY, Renaissance essays, 1988.
A. HAUSER Mannerism. The crisis of the Renaissance and the origin of modern art, 1965
G. HENDERSON Early Medieval, 1972 (in the series 'Style and Civilisation).
G. HENDERSON Gothic, 1967 (in the series 'Style and Civilisation').
G. KOHL, Renaissance humanism, 1300-1550 : a bibliography of materials in English, 1985.
A. LAVIN, The place of narrative : mural decoration in Italian churches, 431-1600, 1990
G. LARNER Culture and society in Italy, 1290-1420, 1971.
M. LEVEY Early Renaissance, 1967 (in the series 'Style and Civilisation').
M. LEVEY High Renaissance, 1975 (in the series 'Style and Civilisation').
M. LEVEY Painting at court, 1971.
A. MARTINDALE Man and the Renaissance, 1966.
L. MURRAY High Renaissance and Mannerism, 1967
W. OAKESHOTT Classical inspiration in mediaeval art, 1959.
E. PANOFSKY Meaning in the visual arts, 1955.
E. PANOFSKY Renaissance and Renascences in western art, rev. ed. 1965.
P. PARTNER Renaissance Rome, 1976.
B. PULLAN A history of Early Renaissance Italy, 1973.
F. SAXL A heritage of images, 1970.
J. SHEARMAN Mannerism, 1967 (in the series 'Style and Civilisation").
T. VERDON, Christianity and the Renaissance: image and religious imagination in the Quattrocento, 1990
M. WACKERNAGEL The world of the Italian Renaissance artist (English edition), 1981.
R. WITTKOWER Idea and image. Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 1978.
H. WOELFFLIN Classic art: an introduction to the Italian Renaissance (English edition), 1953.
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: SOURCES
L.B. ALBERTI On painting (ed. C. Grayson), 1972.
P. BURKE The Renaissance sense of the past, 1969.
B. CELLINI,The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini, various eds.
C. R. GILBERT Italian art 1400-1500: sources and documents, 1980
E.G. HOLT (ed) A documentary history of art, 3 vols, 1957-66.
R. KLEIN / H. ZERNER Italian art 1500-1600, 1966.
Antonio di Tuccio MANETTI, The life of Brunelleschi, 1970.
G. VASARI The lives of the ... artists. (The key source, first published in 1550).
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: PAINTING & SCULPTURE
C. AVERY Florentine Renaissance sculpture, 1970
J. BECK Italian Renaissance painting, 1981.
B. BERENSON Italian pictures of the Renaissance - Florence, 2 vols, 1963 - Venice, 2 vols, 1957 - C. & N. Italy, 3 vols, 3rd. ed., 1968
E. BORSOOK The mural painters of Tuscany, 1960.
A. CHASTEL Italian art, 1963
B. COLE Giotto and Florentine painting, 1280-1375, 1976.
B. COLE Masaccio and the art of the early Renaissance, 1980.
S.J. FREEDBERG Painting of the High renaissance in Rome and Florence, 2 vols, 1961
W. FRIEDLAENDER Mannerism and anti-Mannerism in Italian painting, 1957.
C. GOULD An introduction to Italian Renaissance painting, 1957.
S. HAGER (editor), Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael in Renaissance Florence from 1500 to 1508, 1992.
M. MEISS The painter's choice. Problems in the interpretation of Renaissance art, 1976.
J. POPE-HENNESSY Italian Gothic sculpture, rev. ed. 1972.
J. POPE-HENNESSY Italian Renaissance sculpture, rev. ed. 1971.
J. POPE-HENNESSY Italian High Renaissance and Baroque sculpture, 3 vols, 1963.
J. POPE-HENNESSY The portrait in the Renaissance, 1966.
D. ROSAND Painting in Cinquecento Venice, 1982
A. SMART The Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy, 1971.
J. STEER A concise history of Venetian painting, 1970.
J. H. STUBBLEBINE, Assisi and the rise of vernacular art, 1985.
J. WILDE Venetian art from Bellini to Titian, 1974.
SERIES: "THE COMPLETE PAINTINGS OF..."
An Italian publisher has produced a series of well illustrated catalogues of the works of certain painters, some of the volumes of which have been translated into English. The whole series is in the Library. Volumes of interest to this course (some in English, others in Italian) are in the Departmental Slide Room, as follows:
Antonello; Bellini; Botticelli; Correggio; Duccio; Giorgione; Giotto; Leonardo; Mantegna; Masaccio; Michelangelo; Perugino; Piero della Francesca; Raphael; Tintoretto; Titian; Veronese
THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: ARCHITECTURE
L. BENEVOLO The architecture of the Renaissance, 2 vols 1978.
J. BURCKHARDT The architecture of the Italian renaissance, ed. P. Murray, 1985
P. MURRAY The architecture of the Italian Renaissance, 1969.
P. ROTONDI The Ducal Palace of Urbino, 1969
C. H. SMITH, Architecture in the culture of early humanism : ethics, aesthetics, and eloquence, 1400-1470, 1992.
J. SUMMERSON The classical language of architecture, 1964.
M. TAFURI, Venice and the Renaissance, 1989.
R. WITTKOWER Architectural principles in the age of Humanism, 3rd. rev. ed. 1962.
BOOKS ON INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS
Below are listed in alphabetical order by artist some good books recommended for those artists on whom this course focusses. There are, of course, plenty more on the Library shelves.
F. BORSI L.B. Alberti: the complete work, 1976.
J. GADOL L. B. Alberti: universal man of the Early Renaissance, 1969. (i.e. this is not just about his architecture).
M. JARZOMBEK, On Leon Baptista Alberti : his literary and aesthetic theories, 1989.
G. ROBERTSON Giovanni Bellini, 1968.
C. DEMPSEY, The portrayal of love : Botticelli's Primavera and humanist culture at the time of Lorenzo the Magnificent, 1992.
R. LIGHTBOWN Sandro Botticelli, 2 vols 1978.
A. BRUSCHI Bramante, 1977
I. HYMAN (ed) Brunelleschi in perspective, 1974
H. KLOTZ, Filippo Brunelleschi : the early works and the medieval tradition, 1990.
A. MANETTI, The life of Brunelleschi, 1970
J. POPE-HENNESSY, Benvenuto Cellini, 1985.
C. GOULD The paintings of Correggio, 1976.
M. GREENHALGH Donatello and his sources, 1982.
P. A. LEACH, Images of political triumph : Donatello's iconography of heroes, 1984.
H.W. JANSON The sculpture of Donatello, 1963.
J. H. STUBBLEBINE, Duccio di Buoninsegna and his school, 1979.
J. WHITE Duccio: Tuscan art and the medieval workshop, 1979.
K. CHRISTIANSEN Gentile da Fabriano, 1982.
R. KRAUTHEIMER Lorenzo Ghiberti, 1956.
T. PIGNATTI Giorgione, 1971.
S. SETTIS, Giorgione's Tempest : interpreting the hidden subject, 1990.
B. COLE, Giotto and florentine painting 1280-1375, 1976.
J. H. STUBBLEBINE Giotto: The Arena Chapel frescoes, 1969.
C. PEDRETTI Leonardo, a study in chronology and style, 1973.
K. CLARK Leonardo da Vinci, 1959
M. KEMP Leonardo da Vinci: the marvellous works of nature and man, 1981.
A. MARTINDALE, Simone Martini, 1988.
A. CHASTEL: The Sistine Chapel : Michelangelo rediscovered, 1986.
J. S. ACKERMAN The architecture of Michelangelo, 2nd ed., 1986
H. HIBBARD Michelangelo, 1975.
C. SEYMOUR (ed) Michelangelo: the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, 1972.
H. THIES, Michelangelo: das Kapitol, 1982.
J. S. ACKERMAN Palladio, 1966.
B. BOUCHER, Andrea Palladio : the architect in his time, 1994.
H. BURNS, Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580 : the portico and the farmyard, 1975.
P. HOLBERTON, Palladio's villas : life in the Renaissance countryside, 1990.
S. PARISSIEN, Palladian style, 1994.
B. COLE, Piero della Francesca : tradition and innovation in Renaissance art, 1991.
K. CLARK Piero della Francesca, rev. ed. 1969.
G. PACCAGNINI Pisanello, 1973
F. AMES-LEWIS, The draftsman Raphael, 1986.
J. H. BECK, Raphael before Rome, 1986.
L. DUSSLER Raphael: a critical catalogue of his pictures, wall paintings and tapestries, 1971.
C. L. FROMMEL, Raffaello architetto, 1984.
R. JONES & N. PENNY, Raphael, 1983
J. POPE-HENNESSY Raphael, 1970.
G. MORELLO, Raffaello e la Roma dei Papi, 1986.
J. POPE-HENNESSY Luca della Robbia, 1980.
F. HARTT Giulio Romano, 2 vols 1958.
E. VERHEYEN, The Palazzo del Te in Mantua : images of love and politics, 1977.
M. HIRST Sebastiano del Piombo, 1981
C. HOPE Titian, 1980.
J. NASH, Veiled images : Titian's mythological paintings for Philip II, 1985.
E. PANOFSKY, Problems in Titian, mostly iconographic, 1969.
H. E. WETHEY The paintings of Titian, 3 vols, 1969, 1971 & 1975.
F. & S. BORSI, Paolo Uccello, 1994.
J. POPE-HENNESSY Paolo Uccello, rev. ed. 1969.
R. COCKE, Veronese, 1980
C. HOPE, Veronese and the Venetian tradition of allegory, 1986.
New research often appears in articles long before it does in books. English language periodicals of interest to you would include:
Apollo; Art Bulletin; Art History; Burlington Magazine; Gazette des Beaux Arts; Journal of medieval and renaissance studies; Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians; Oxford Art Journal; Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes; Mediaeval and Renaissance studies; Medievalia et humanistica; Parergon;Renaissance quarterly. See also the Bibliographie internationale de l'humanisme et de la Renaissance (1965ff), and the Bibliotheque d'humanisme et renaissance. Travaux et documents.
Museums and art galleries also publish journals which deal largely with the items in their care: look along the periodicals shelves to acquaint yourself with the range of our holdings in this area.