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GASP 156E (DePrano)

Italian Renaissance Art 156

Specific Books

Reference Titles (encylopedias, dictionaries etc.)

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms (2 ed.)
Book for loan request at UC Merced, from Oxford University Press (2010)
The Oxford Dictionary of Art 3rd ed. (Chilvers)
ebook at UC Merced, Oxford REference (2004)
The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists 5th ed. (Chilvers)
ebook at UC Merced, Oxford Reference
The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance (Hale)
ebook from CREDO, Thames and Hudson Ltd. (2003)
Encylopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist Art (Turner)
UC Merced print book, Grove (2000)
The Encyclopaedia of the Renaissance (Goddard Bergin & Speake)
ebook from CREDO, Market House Books (1987)
The Oxford Companion to Western Art (Hugh Brigstocke)
ebook at UC Merced, in Oxford Reference (2003)
The Grove Encylopedia of Materials and Techniques in Art (ed. Ward)
ebook at UC Merced, Oxford Reference (2008)
The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
At other UC Libraries, would have to be requested through Interlibrary Loan; You may wish to request a specific "entry".

Italian Renaissance

The Italian Renaissance State (Gamberini & Lazzarini)
ebook from CREDO, Cambridge University Press (2012)
Daily Life in Renaissance Italy (Cohen & Cohen)
ebook at UC Merced, Greenwood Press (2001)
A Short History of the Italian Renaissance (Bartlett)
ILL Book at UC Merced, University of Toronto Press (2013)
Italy in the Age of the Renaissance: 1300 - 1550
ebook at UC Merced, Oxford University Press (2004)
The Renaissance of Empire in Early Modern Europe
print book at UC Merced, Cambridge University Press (2014); refers to art including "ancient imperial iconography"

Northern Renaissance Art

The Grove Encyclopedia of Northern Renaissance Art
print book volumes at UC Merced - "deals with all aspects of Northern Renaissance art ranging from artists, architecture, and patrons to the cities and centers of production vital to the flourishing of art in this period"

Specific Books

Italian Renaissance - art & architecture focus

History of Italian Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture (Hartt & Wilkins)
print book at UC Merced, Prentice Hall (2006)
Italian Renaissance Courts: Art, Pleasure and Power
ebook at UC Merced, Laurence King Publishing (2016)
Italian Renaissance Art: Understanding its Meaning (Joost-Gaugier)
ebook at UC Merced, Wiley-Blackwell (2013)
Art in Renaissance Italy (Paoletti & Radke)
print book at UC Merced, H.N. Abrams (2002)
Architecture and Memory: the Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro (Kirkbride)
ebook at UC Merced, Columbia University Press (2008)
Global Interests: Renaissance Art Between East and West (Jarine & Brotton)
ebook at UC Merced, Reaktion (2000)
Italian Renaissance Art (Adams)
print book at UC Merced, Westview Press (2001)
Only Connect -- : Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance (Shearman, National Gallery of Art)
ebook at UC Merced, Princeton University Press (1992)
The Italian Renaissance: Culture and Society in Italy (Burke)
ebook at UC Merced, Polity Press (2014)
Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance
ebook at UC Merced, University of Toronto Press (2010)
Transformations of Time and Temporality in Medieval and Renaissance Art (Cohen)
ebook at UC Merced, Brill (2014) - including information on Renaissance iconography
Perspectives on the Renaissance Medal (Scher)
American Numismatic Society (2000), focuses a lot on Italy e.g. portrait medal

Sample Questions:

PRACTICE:

Can you find biographical information on Enea Vico?
Can we find out more about pastigla from a reputable source?
What do we know about engraving/engravers during the Italian Renaissance?
Do dogs have any special symbolism in the Italian Renaissance? Who owned dogs?
What can we learn about the iconography of war (battles etc.) in Italian Renaissance art?