The EARLY Italian Renaissance: Selected Bibliography
AUTHOR:
TITLE:
CALL NUMBER:
Ajmar-Wollheim, M. and Dennis, Flora (eds):
At Home in Renaissance Italy (V&A Publications, London, 2006)
945.05 AJM
Alberti, Leon Battista:
On Painting/Leon Battista Alberti (Yale University Press, New Haven and London)
751.4 ALB
Antal, Frederick:
Florentine Painting and its Social Background (Harvard University Press, Massachusetts 1986)
759.5 ANT
Avery, Charles:
Donatello: An Introduction (John Murray, London, 1994)
The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance: Civic Humanism and Republican Liberty in an Age of Classicism and
Tyranny (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1966)
Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style (Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 1988)
Donatello (Phaidon, Oxford, 1984)
730.945 DON
Italian Painting Before 1400 (National Gallery, London, 1989)
759.5 BOM
759.5 BOR
Burckhardt, Jacob:
The Mural Painters of Tuscany: From Cimabue to Andrea del Sarto (Phaidon Press, London, 1960)
Earth and Fire: Italian Terracotta Sculpture from Donatello to Canova (Yale University Press, New Haven and London,
2001)
The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1990)
Cennini, Cennino d’Andrea:
The Craftsman’s Handbook (Sections 1 - 5) (Dover Publications, New York, 1960)
702.8 CEN
Cole, Alison:
Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts: Virtue and Magnificence (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1995)
709.45 COL
Cole, Bruce:
Italian Art 1250 - 1550: The Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society (Harper and Row, New York, 1987)
709.45 COL
Cole, Bruce:
Sienese Painting: From its Origins to the Fifteenth Century (New York, 1980)
Cole, Bruce:
702.8 COL
Domestici, Fiamma:
The Renaissance Artist at Work (John Murray, London, 1983)
Dynasty and Destiny in Medici Art: Pontormo, Leo X, and the Two Cosimos (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University
Press, 1984)
Portraits and Masks in the Art of Lorenzo de’ Medici, Botticelli, and Politian’s Stanze per la Giostra, Renaissance Quarterly
Vol. 52 No. 1 (Spring 1999) 1-42.
The Portrayal of Love: Botticelli’s ‘Primavera’ and Humanist Culture at the Time of Lorenzo the Magnificent
(Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1992)
Della Robbia: A Family of Artists (Scala, Antella (Firenze), 1992)
Ettlinger, Leopold D.:
The Sistine Chapel before Michelangelo: Religious Imagery and Papal Primacy (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1965)
759.5 ETT
Ferguson, George:
Signs and Symbols in Christian Art (Oxford, 1977)
703. FER
Baron, Hans:
Baxandall, Michael:
Bennett, Bonnie A. and Wilkins, David G.:
Bomford, D.; Dunkerton, J. ; Gordon, D. and
Roy, A.:
Borsook, Eve:
Boucher, Bruce (ed):
Cox-Rearick, Janet:
Dempsey, Charles:
Dempsey, Charles:
945.05 BAR
759.5 BAX
730.945 DON
730.945 BOU
945.06 BUR
759.5 BOT
730.945 ROB
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*This is a general bibliography of the period. Your lecturers will include further bibliographical material (including websites, articles and so on) during individual sessions.
The EARLY Italian Renaissance: Selected Bibliography
AUTHOR:
TITLE:
CALL NUMBER:
Galluzzi, Paolo:
Renaissance Engineers: From Brunelleschi to Leonardo da Vinci (Giunti, Firenze, 2004)
709.45 GAL
Gentilini, Giancarlo (ed):
I Della Robbia: il dialogo tra le arti nel Rinascimento (Milano, Skira, 2009)
Goldthwaite, Richard A.:
The Economy of Renaissance Florence (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)
Goldthwaite, Richard A.:
The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture, American Historical Review Vol. 77 No. 4 (Oct 1972) 977-1012
Goldthwaite, Richard A.:
The Medici Bank and Florentine Capitalism, Past and Present Vol. 114 (1): (1987) 3-31
Goldthwaite, Richard A.:
Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300 – 1600 (John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1993)
709.45 GOL
Gombrich, E.H.:
The Essential Gombrich: Selected Writings on Art and Culture (Phaidon, London, 1996)
701 GOM
Gottfried, R.S.:
The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (The Free Press, New York, 1983)
940.17 GOT
Greenblatt, S.:
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began (The Bodley Head, London, 2011)
940.21 GRE
Greenhalgh, Michael:
Donatello and his Sources (London, Duckworth, 1982)
Hall, James:
704.9 HAL
Hamer, Frank:
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (John Murray, London, 1980)
The Ponte in S. Maria Novella: The Problem of the Rood Screen in Italy, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes
Vol. 37 (1974) 157-173
The Potter’s Dictionary of Materials and Techniques (New York, Watson-Guptill Publications, 1975)
Hartt, Frederick and Wilkins, David G.:
A History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 2003)
709.45 HAR
Hay, Denys:
The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1962)
945.05 HAY
Hayum, Andrée:
The Nuns at S. Apollonia and Castagno’s Last Supper, Art Bulletin Vol 88 No 2 (Jun 2006) 243-266
Heydenreich, Ludwig Heinrich and Davies, Paul:
Architecture in Italy 1400 - 1500 (Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996)
720.945 HEY
Hollingsworth, Mary:
Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth century (John Murray, London, 1994)
Saint Dominic’s Manners of Praying Gestures in Fra Angelico’s Cell Frescoes at S. Marco, Art Bulletin Vol 68 No 2 (Jun
1986) 195-206
Sienese Painting: The Art of a City-Republic 1287 – 1477 (Thames and Hudson, London, 2003)
709.45 HOL
The Sculpture of Donatello (Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1963)
Botticelli's Witness: Changing Style in a Changing Florence (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, 1997)
730.945 DON
Hall, Marcia:
Hood, William:
Hyman, Timothy:
Janson, Horst Woldemar:
Kanter, Laurence B.; Goldfarb, Hilliard T. and
Hankins, James:
Kemp, Martin:
The Science of Art: Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat (Yale University Press, New Haven
and London, 1990)
759.5 HYM
759.5 BOT
750.18 KEM
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*This is a general bibliography of the period. Your lecturers will include further bibliographical material (including websites, articles and so on) during individual sessions.
The EARLY Italian Renaissance: Selected Bibliography
AUTHOR:
TITLE:
CALL NUMBER:
Kent, Dale:
Cosimo de’Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: The Patron’s Oeuvre (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2000)
945.5105 MED
Kent, Francis William:
945.5105
Lavin, Irving:
Lorenzo de’Medici and the Art of Magnificence (The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 2004)
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Penguin Books, London and New York,
2000)
Past-Present: Essays on Historicism in Art from Donatello to Picasso (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1993)
Levey, Michael:
Early Renaissance (Penguin Books, London, 1967)
709.024 LEV
Lightbown, Ronald:
Sandro Botticelli: Life and Work (Abbeville Press Publishers, New York, London, Paris, 1989)
759.5 BOT
Manetti, Antonio:
The Fat Woodcarver (Italica Press, New York, 1991)
850 MAN
Mayer, Ralph:
751 MAY
Micheletti, E.:
The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques (Faber, London, 1973)
Donatello’s Bronze David and Judith as Metaphors of Medici Rule in Florence, Art Bulletin Vol 83 No 1 (Mar 2001) 3247
Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: The Arts, Religion and Society in the Mid-Fourteenth Century
(Harper and Row, New York, 1951)
Santa Croce (Becocci Editore, Firenze, 1985)
Mosco, Marilena (ed):
Meraviglie: Precious, Rare and Curious Objects from the Medici Treasure (Florence, Centro Di, 2003)
Norman, Diana:
Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (Yale University Press, London, 2003)
Nuttall, Paula:
From Flanders to Florence – the Impact of Netherlandish Painting 1400 - 1500 (Yale University Press, 2004)
Orlandi, S.:
Historical-Artistic Guide of Santa Maria Novella and her Monumental Cloisters (Becocci Editore, Firenze, 1980)
708.551 SMN
Panofsky, E.:
Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (Harper and Row, New York and London, 1972)
709.024 PAN
Paoletti, John T. and Radke, Gary M.:
Art in Renaissance Italy (L. King, 1997)
709.45 PAO
Parks, Tim:
Medici Money: Banking, Metaphysics, and Art in Fifteenth-Century Florence (New York, W. W. Norton & Co., 2005)
Pater, Walter:
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Fontana/Collins, London, 1971)
Petrucci, Francesca:
Luca Della Robbia (Roma, Gruppo editoriale l'espresso, 2005)
Pope-Hennessy, John W.:
Donatello: Sculptor (New York, Abbeville Press, 1993)
Pope-Hennessy, John W.:
Italian Renaissance Sculpture (Phaidon, London, 1958)
730.945 POP
Pope-Hennessy, John W.:
Luca della Robbia (Phaidon, Oxford, 1980)
730.945 ROB
King, Ross:
McHam, Sarah Blake:
Meiss, Millard:
720.945 BRU
709 LAV
759.5 MEI
708.551 SAN
709.45 PAT
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*This is a general bibliography of the period. Your lecturers will include further bibliographical material (including websites, articles and so on) during individual sessions.
The EARLY Italian Renaissance: Selected Bibliography
AUTHOR:
TITLE:
CALL NUMBER:
Ruda, Jeffrey:
Fra Filippo Lippi – Life and Work (Phaidon Press, London, 2007)
759.5 LIP
Saalman, Howard:
Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings (The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pennsylvania, 1993)
Money and Beauty: Bankers, Botticelli and the Bonfire of the Vanities (Giunti, Firenze, 2011)
720.945 BRU
Sebregondi, Ludovica and Parks, Tim (eds):
709.45 MON
Tarr, Roger:
Brunelleschi and Donatello Placement and Meaning in Sculpture, Artibus et Historie Vol 16 No 32 (1995) 101-140
Thomas, Anabel:
The Painter’s Practice in Renaissance Tuscany (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1995)
Women in Italian Renaissance Art: Gender, Representation, Identity (Chs. 2 and 5) (Manchester University Press,
Manchester and New York, 1997)
Lives of the Artists (Vols. 1 and 2) (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1987)
759.5 THO
709.45 VEG
White, John:
International Gothic Art in Italy (Thames and Hudson Ltd, London, 1968)
Christianity and the Renaissance; Image and Religious Imagination in the Quattrocento (Syracuse University Press, New
York, 1990)
The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space (Faber and Faber, London, 1972)
Wilde, Johannes:
Venetian Art from Bellini to Titian (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981)
759.5 WIL
Wind, Edgar:
Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1980)
Born under Saturn: The Character and Conduct of Artists: A Documented History from Antiquity to the French
Revolution (W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 1963)
Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (The Warburg Institute, University of London, London, 1949)
704.946 WIN
Tinagli, Paola:
Vasari, Giorgio:
Vegas, Liana Castelfranchi:
Verdon, Timothy (ed):
Wittkower, Margot and Rudolph:
Wittkower, Rudolph:
709.45 TIN
709.45 VAS
709.023 VER
709.45 WHI
701.15 WIT
724.14 WIT
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*This is a general bibliography of the period. Your lecturers will include further bibliographical material (including websites, articles and so on) during individual sessions.