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AD 346 ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART

Books Highly Recommended – Available in the Purdue HSSE Library

Adams, Laurie S., Art and Psychoanalysis, 701.05 Ad18a 1993: many Renaissance examples.

Alexander, J. J. G. The Splendor of the Word: Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts At the New York Public Library. New York: New York Public Library , 2005. 745.670747471 N42s 2005

Barolsky, Paul, Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor in Italian Renaissance Art, 709.45 B263i: good bibliography.

Bartlett, Kenneth R. The Civilization of the Italian Renaissance: a Sourcebook, DG 445.C57 2011

Beck, James, Italian Renaissance Painting, 759.5 B3881 (on reserve): good general text.

Bell, Rudolph M., How To Do It: Guides to Good Living for Renaissance Italians, 646.70094509031 B413h 1999 (on reserve): self-help books from the period, good insight into the culture and everyday life.

Brown, Patricia F., Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, 945.3105 B814a 1997

Brucker, Gene, The Society of Renaissance Florence: A Documentary Study, 309.14551 B831s: court records and other contemporary accounts of everyday life.

Burckhardt, Jacob, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, 720.945 B893gE

______, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy: an essay, 945 B89cgl

Cellini, Benvenuto, The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, written by himself, 730.92 C331BE 1995

Cennini, Cennino, The Craftsman’s Handbook, 751 C33 v.2: contemporary artist’s manual of techniques and methods.

Chojnacka, Monica, Working Women of Early Modern Venice, 305 J62 V,118 no. 3.

Chojnacki, Stanley, Women and Men in Renaissance Venice: twelve essays on patrician society, 306.7094531 C452w 2000

Cohen, Elizabeth S. and Thomas V. Cohen, Daily Life in Renaissance Italy, 945.05 C66d 2001 (on reserve): good essays on all aspects of everyday life. 2

Colantuono, Anthony. Titian, Colonna, And the Renaissance Science of Procreation: Equicola's Seasons of Desire. Surrey, Uk., England: Ashgate, 2010. NX650.E7 C66 2010

Cole, Bruce, The Renaissance Artist at Work: from Pisano to Titian, 709.45 C674r 1983.

______, Italian Art: the Relation of Renaissance Art to Life and Society, 709.45 C674i 1987 (Textbook)

Dunkerton, Jill, Durer to Veronese: sixteenth century painting in the National Gallery, 759.0307442132 D921d 1999: beautiful plates, good reference on techniques.

______, Giotto to Durer: early Renaissance painting in the National Gallery, (main author: National Gallery, Gr. Britain), 759.02207442132 N213g 1991.

Frick, Carol C., Dressing Renaissance Florence: families, fortunes & fine clothing, 391.0209455109024 F911d 2002.

Freedman, Luba. Classical Myths In Italian Renaissance Painting. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press, 2011. ND1422.I8 F74 2011

Furlotti, Barbara, and Guido Rebecchini. The Art of Mantua: Power And Patronage In the Renaissance. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2008N5273.2.G65 F87 2008

Garrard, Mary D. Brunelleschi's Egg: Nature, Art, And Gender In Renaissance Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010N72.F45 G38 2010

Haas, Louis, The Renaissance Man and his Children: Childbirth and Early Childhood in Renaissance Florence, 1300-1600, 305.23094551 H111r 1998

Hall, Marcia B., After Raphael: painting in central Italy in the sixteenth century, 759.5609031 H145a 1999.

Hartt, Frederick, History of Italian Renaissance Art: painting, sculpture, architecture, N6915.H37 2011 (on reserve): good reference with very extensive bibliography.

Holt, Elizabeth G., A Documentary History of Art, Vol 1: the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, 709 H74d 1957 V.1 (on reserve).

______, A Documentary History of Art, Vol. 2: Michelangelo and the Mannerists, the Baroque and the Eighteenth Century, 709 H74d 1957 V.2 (on reserve): letters, contracts, poetry, etc.

Jacobs, Fredrika H., Defining the Renaissance Virtuosa: women artists and the language of art history and criticism, 704,042094509031 J152d 1999.

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Kent, Dale, Cosimo de’ Medici and the Florentine Renaissance: the patron’s oeuvre, 945.5105092 M468Z K414 2000: beautiful plates.

King,Ross, Brunelleschi’s Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvente3d Architecture, 726.6094551 B835Z K586 2000

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane, Women, Family, and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. 306.094551 K663w.

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and the Renaissance in Florence, 709.4509031 L553 2005

The Medici, Michelangelo, and the Art of Renaissance Florence, 709.455109031 M468 2002: beautiful exhibition catalog.

Meiss, Millard, Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death: the arts, religion, and society in the mid-fourteenth century, 759.55 M478p 1978

Michelangelo, Life, Letters, and Poetry, 700.924 M582B B872

Minor, Andrew C. and Bonner Mitchell, A Renaissance Entertainment: festivities for the marriage of Cosimo I, Duke of Florence, in 1539, an edition of the music, poetry, comedy, and descriptive account, 394.2094551 M666r.

Motture, Peta, and Michelle O’Malley, Re-thinking Renaissance Objects, 2011 (online)

Origo, Iris, The Merchant of Prato, Francesco di Marco Datini, 923.8 D26o: letters to his wife, wonderful picture of contemporary life.

The Panorama of the Renaissance, the Renaissance in the perspective of history, ed. Margaret Aston, 940.21 P194 1996: essays on daily life with illustrations.

Paoletti, John T. and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy, 709.4509024 P196a 1997 (Textbook.)

Pius II, Pope, Memoirs of a Renaissance Pope: the commentaries of Pius II, 922.21 P68aE 1959.

Platina, Platina on Right Pleasure and Good Health: a critical edition and translation of De Honesta Voluptate et Valetudine, 641.594509024 P696dE: book of recipes for food and proper living.

Quiviger, Francois, The Sensory World of Italian Renaissance Art, 2010 (online)

Randolph, Adrian W.B., Engaging Symbols: gender, politics, and public art in fifteenth- century Florence, 709.455109024 R159e 2002: nice plates, huge bibliography. 4

Richardson, Carol M.. Locating Renaissance Art. New Haven [Conn.]: Yale University Press , 2007. 709.024 L787 2007

Richardson, Carol M.. Renaissance Art Reconsidered: an Anthology of Primary Sources. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub. , 2007. 709.024 R29 2007

Rowland, Ingrid D., From Heaven to Arcadia: the sacred and the profane in the Renaissance, 945.05 R796f 2005.

Ruggiero, Guido, The Boundaries of Eros: sex crime and sexuality in Renaissance Venice, 306.7094531 R843b.

______, ed., A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance, 2002, (online)

______, The Renaissance in Italy: a social and cultural history of the Rinascimento, DG533.R84 2015

Ruvoldt, Maria, The Italian Renaissance Imagery of Inspiration: metaphors of sex, sleep, and dreams, 753.6094509024 R942i 2004.

Sider, Sandra, Handbook to Life in Renaissance Europe, 940.21 Si13h 2005

Siena, Florence and Padua: art, society and religion 1280-1400, Vol. 2: case studies, 701.03094509023 Si16 1995 v.2: beautiful color plates.

Springer, Carolyn, Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance, NK6652.A1 S67 2010

Trexler, Richard, Dependence in Context in Renaissance Florence, 306.094551 T729d 1994: the place of children and women.

______, Power and Dependence in Renaissance Florence, 306.094551 T729p 1998: the working classes.

Vasari, Giorgio, The Lives of the Artists, 709.22 V44vE: early biographical essays of Renaissance artists.

Wackernagel, Martin, The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist: projects and patrons, workshop and art market, 709.4551 W116LE

Woods-Marsden, Joanna, Renaissance Self-Portraiture: the visual construction of identity and the social status of the artist, 704.9420945 W868r 1998