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The EARLY Italian Renaissance Selected Bibliography This Is A The EARLY Italian Renaissance Selected bibliography This is a general bibliography of the period. Monographs are not included. Your lecturers will include further bibliographical material (including websites, articles and so on) during individual sessions. Primary Sources Cennini, Cennino: The Craftsman’s Handbook (Dover, 1954) 702.8CEN Vasari, Giorgio: Lives of the Artists (Penguin, 1987) 709.45 VAS Historical Background Burckhardt, Jacob: The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy (Phaidon, 1944) 945.06 BUR Gottfried, RS: The Black Death: Natural and Human Disaster in Medieval Europe (The Free Press: New York, 1983) 940.17 GOT Hay, Denys: The Italian Renaissance in its historical background. Note: chapters 1-4 cover the 14th century. 945.05 HAY Norman, D (ed): Siena, Florence and Padua: Art, Society and Religion 1280-1400; Vol.1 Interpretative Essays; Vol.2 Case Studies (Yale University Press, 1995) 709.45 NOR Waley, D: Siena and the Sienese in the thirteenth century (New York, 1991) Art and Society Larner, J: Culture and Society in Italy 1290-1420 (London, 1971) General Histories of Renaissance Art and Architecture Bomford, D, Dunkerton, J, Gordon, D and Roy, A: Art in the Making: Italian painting before 1400 (London, 1989) 759.5 BOM Borsook, E: The Mural Painters of Tuscany: Cimabue to Andrea del Sarto (London, 1960, 2nd edition 1980) 759.5 BOR Castelfranchi, L.: The International Gothic Style in Italy 709.45 VEG Cole, B: Giotto and Florentine Painting 1280 - 1375 (Harper & Row: New York, 1976) 759.5 GIO Cole, B: Sienese Painting: from its Origins to the Fifteenth Century (New York, 1980) Hartt, Frederick & Wilkins, David G.: A History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2003) 709.45 HAR Hyman, T: Sienese Painting: the art of a City-Republic 1287-1477 (Thames & Hudson, 2003) 759.05 HYM Levey, Michael: Early Renaissance (Penguin, 1967) 709.024 LEV Meiss, Millard: Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death (Harper & Row, 1951) 759.5 MEI Micheletti, E: Santa Croce (Becocci Editore, Firenze, 1982) 708.551 SAN Norman, D: Painting in Late Medieval and Renaissance Siena (Yale University Press, London, 2003) Orlandi, P.S o.p & Revised by P.Isnardo & P.Grossi o.p: Historical & Artistic Guide of Santa Maria Novella and her Monumental Cloisters (Becocci Editore: Firenze, 1980) 708.551 SAN Paoletti, John T & Radke, Gary M: Art in Renaissance Italy (L. King, 1997) 709.45 PAO Panofsky, E: Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (New York and London, 1972) 709.024 PAN Pope-Hennessy, John W: An Introduction to Italian Sculpture, Vols, I, II and III (Phaidon, 1971) 730.945 POP Smart, A: The Dawn of Italian Painting, 1250-1400 (Oxford, 1978) White, J: Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250-1400 (Penguin, 1966) Art Patronage, Art and Society Antal, Frederick: Florentine Painting and its Social Background (Harvard, 1986) 759.5 ANT Baxandall, Michael: Painting and Experience in 15th Century Italy (Oxford, 1988) 759.5 BAX Cole, Alison: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (Harry N. Abrams, 1995) 709.45 COL Cole, Bruce: Italian Art 1250-1550: the Relation Of Renaissance Art to Life and Society (Harper & Row, 1987) 709.45 COL Goldthwaite, Richard A.: Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300-1600 (Johns Hopkins University, 1993) 709.45 GOL Renaissance Techniques and Materials Cole, Bruce: The Renaissance Artist at Work – from Pisano to Titian (John Murray, 1983) 702.8 COL Mayer, Ralph: The Artist’s Handbook of Materials and Techniques (Faber & Faber, 1973) 7 5 1 MAY Thomas, Anabel: The Painter’s Practice in Renaissance Tuscany (Cambridge, 1995) 759.5 THO Iconography Ferguson, George: Signs and Symbols in Christian Art (Oxford, 1977) 703. FER Hall, James: Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art (John Murray, 1980) 704.9 HAL.
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