Art History 3437y: Professor Rosand • Syllabus

Vasari	Vasari, Lives of the Artists, vol. 1, pp. 25-47 ("Preface to the Lives"), pp. 83-93 ("Preface to Part Two"), pp. 249-254 ("Preface to Part Three").
Michelangelo Reading Assignments	Vasari, Lives of the Artists, vol. I: Life of Michelangelo (L)(R) Wolfflin, Classic Art, chapter III: Michelangelo (2. "The Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel," 3. "The Julius Monument") (L)(R) Charles Seymour, Jr., ed., Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, pp. 102151: "Backgrounds and Sources" (R) Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology, chapter V: "The Neoplatonic Movement and Michelangelo" (L)(R)
Raphael Reading Assignments	Vasari, Lives of the Artists, vol. I: Life of Raphael (L)(R) Wolfflin, Classic Art, chapter IV: Raphael (3. "The Camera della Segnatura," 4. "The Camera d'Eliodoro," 5. "The Tapestry Cartoons," 6. "The Roman Portraits," 7. "Roman Altar-Pieces") (L)(R)
Painting in Venice (1) Reading Assignments	Vasari, Lives of the Artists, vol. I: Giorgione da Castelfranco, Titian of Cadore Rosand, Painting in Cinquecento Venice, Chap. 1: "Introduction: The Conditions of Painting in Renaissance Venice," Chap. 2: "Titian and the Challenge of the Altarpiece" Rosand, The Meaning of the Mark, Chap. 2: "The Stroke of the Brush" Further Suggestions Jaynie Anderson, Giorgione: The Painter of "Poetic Brevity", Paris and New York: Flammarion, 1997 David Rosand, "Giorgione, Venice, and the Pastoral Vision," in Robert Cafritz et al., Places of Delight: The Pastoral Landscape, Washington: The Phillips Collection, 1988, pp. 2081 Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology, Chap. V: "The Neoplatonic Movement in Florence and North Italy" Rona Goffen, "Titian's Sacred and Profane Love: Identity and Sexuality in a Renaissance Marriage Picture," in Titian 500, ed. Joseph Manca (Studies in the History of Art 45, National Gallery of Art), Washington, 1993, pp. 121-144 Rona Goffen, Piety and Patronage in Renaissance Venice: Bellini, Titian, and the Franciscans, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1986
The Emilians Reading Assignments	Vasari, Lives of the Artists, vol. I: Correggio, vol. II: Francesco Mazzuoli (Parmigianino) Freedberg, Painting in Italy, 1500-1600, Chap. 4 (on Correggio) Shearman, Only Connect, Chap. IV: "Domes" Shearman, Mannerism Further Suggestions Egon Verheyen, "Correggio's Amori di Giove," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, 29 (1966): 160-92 David Ekserdijian, Correggio, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997 Crolyn Smyth, Correggio's Frescoes in Parma Cathedral, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997 Elizabeth Cropper, "On Beautiful Women, Parmigianino, Petrarchismo, and the Vernacular Style," Art Bulletin, 58 (1976): 374-395 _____, "The Beauty of Women: Problems in the Rhetoric of Renaissance Portraiture," in Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourse of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, ed. Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy C. Vickers, Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1986, pp. 175-90 _____, "The Place of Beauty in the High Renaissance and its Displacement in the History of Art," in Place and Displacement in the Renaissance, ed. Alvin Vos, Binghamton, 1994, pp. 159-205 Ute Davitt-Asmus, "Zur Deutung von Parmigianino's 'Madonna dal Collo Lungo'," Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte, 31 (1968): 305-13 Cecil Gould, Parmigianino, New York and London: Abbeville Press, 1994 The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Washington: National Gallery of Art, and New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986-catalogue of an important exhibition
Titian: Further Suggested Readings	Harold E. Wethey, The Paintings of Titian, 3 vols., London: Phaidon Press, 1969?75??the standard catalogue of the works Charles Hope, Titian, New York: Harper & Row, 1980 David Rosand, Titian, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1978 Erwin Panofsky, Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic, New York: New York University Press, 1969 Francesco Valcanover, et al. Titian. Prince of Painters, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1990 - - catalogue of an exhibition held in Venice and Washington Rona Goffen, Titian's Women, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997 - - an open, generous exploration of a very rich topic Patricia Meilman, Titian and the Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000 - - sets the larger contexts, religious and pictorial, for Titian's lost Peter Martyr Altarpiece
On the Ferrara Bacchanals in particular	David Rosand, "Ekphrasis and the Generation of Images," Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 1 (Winter 1990): 61-105 John Walker, Bellini and Titian at Ferrara: A Study of Styles and Taste, London: Phaidon Press, 1956 Cecil Gould, The Studio of Alfonso d'Este and Titian's Bacchus and Ariadne, London: National Gallery, 1969 Gorel Cavalli-Bjorkman, ed., Bacchanals by Titian and Rubens, Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1987--symposium papers on various aspects of the Camerino, Titian's paintings, and Rubens's copies of them
Further on Giorgione	Jaynie Anderson, Giorgione: The Painter of "Poetic Brevity", Paris and New York: Flammarion, 1997 Edgar Wind, Giorgione's Tempesta, with Comments on Giorgione's Poetic Allegories, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969 Salvatore Settis, Giorgione's Tempest: Interpreting the Hidden Subject, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990 (cf. review by Rosand in Renaissance Quarterly, XLVI, 1993, pp. 368-370) Jonathan Unglaub, "The Concert Cha metre: The Crisis of History and the Limits of Pastoral," Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 5 (Spring/Summer 1997): 46-96
On Venetian Art	Peter Humfrey, The Altarpiece in Renaissance Venice, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993--surveys the subject, in some detail, up to ca. 1530 Peter Humfrey, Painting in Renaissance Venice, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995--a useful general survey Norbert Huse and Wolfgang Wolters, The Art of Venice: Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting, 1460-1590, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1990--a rich review of the several arts in historical context Jane Martineau and Charles Hope, eds., The Genius of Venice 1500-1600, London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1983--catalogue of an important exhibition John Steer, Venetian Painting, London: Thames and Hudson, 1970--a rather too general survey
On History, Politics, Culture	D.S. Chambers, The Imperial Age of Venice, 1380-1580, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970 David Chambers and Brian Pullan, eds., Venice: A Documentary History, 1450-1630, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 J.R. Hale, ed., Renaissance Venice, London: Faber and Faber, 1973 Oliver Logan, Venice 1470-1790: The Renaissance and its Heritage, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1972 Edward Muir, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981 John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice, Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin Books, 1983
Further Suggested Readings: The Later Michelangelo	Loren Partridge, Fabrizio Mancinelli, Gialuigi Colalucci, Michelangelo: The Last Judgment. A Glorious Restoration, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997 Leo Steinberg, ''Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' as Merciful Heresy," Art in America, 63, Nov.-Dec. 1975, pp. 49-63 Leo Steinberg, "A Corner of the Last Judgment," Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 109, Spring 1980, pp. 207-273 Leo Steinberg, "The Line of Fate in Michelangelo's Painting," in The Language of Images, ed. W.J.T. Mitchell, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1980, pp. 85-128 Leo Steinberg, Michelangelo's Last Paintings The Conversion of St. Paul and the Crucifixion of St Peter in the Cappella Paolina, Vatican Palace, New York: Oxford University Press, 1975 Leo Steinberg, "The Metaphors of Love and Birth in Michelangelo 's Pietas," in Studies in Erotic Art, ed. Theodore Bowie and Cornelia V. Christenson, New York and London: Basic Books, 1970, pp. 231-285 Marcia B. Hall, ''Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment': Resurrection of the Body and Predestination," Art Bulletin, 58, 1976, pp. 8592 Bernadine Barnes, Michelangelo's Last Judgment: The Renaissance Response, Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 1998
Painting in Venice (2) Reading Assignments	Rosand, Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice, Chap. 4: "Theater and Structure in the Art of Paolo Veronese"; Chap. 5: "Action and Piety in Tintoretto's Religious Pictures"
Further Suggestions On Titian	Erwin Panofsky, Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic, New York: New York University Press, 1969 David Rosand, "Titian and the Critical Tradition," in Titian: His World and His Legacy, ed. David Rosand, New York: Columbia University Press, 1982, pp. 1-39 David Rosand, "The Stroke of the Brush," in The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian, pp. 49-93 David Rosand, "So-And-So Reclining on Her Couch," in Titian 500, ed. Joseph Manca (Studies in the History of Art 45, National Gallery of Art, 1993, pp. 101-119 Rona Goffen, ed., Titian's Venus of Urbino, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997 Francesco Valcanover, et al., Titian, Prince of Painters, exh. cat., Venice: Palazzo Ducale, and Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1990
On Tintoretto	Francesco Valcanover and Terisio Pignatti, Tintoretto, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1985 Tom Nicols, Tintoretto: Tradition and Identity, London: Reaktion Books, 1999 W.R. Rearick, The Art of Paolo Veronese 1528-1588, exh. cat., Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1988
On Jacopo Bassano	Beverly Louise Brown and Paola Marini, eds., Jacopo Bassano, c. 1510-1592, exh. cat., Bassano del Grappa: Museo Civico, and Fort Worth: Kimbell Art Museum, 1992 Bernard Aikema, Jacopo Bassano and His Public: Moralizing Pictures in an Age of Reform, ca. 1535-1600, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996 Paolo Berdini, The Religious Art of Jacopo Bassano: Painting as Visual Exegesis, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997