Spring
2000
Readings: The following books are available at Labyrinth Books (536
West 112th Street):
Required:
Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists, trans. George Bull, 2 vols.
(Penguin Books)
Heinrich Wölfflin, Classic Art (Phaidon Press)
Walter Friedlaender, Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting
(Columbia University Press)
John Shearman, Mannerism (Penguin Books)
David Rosand, Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto
(Cambridge University Press)
Recommended:
Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology (Harper & Row)
S.J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy, 1500-1600 (Pelican History of Art:
Yale University Press)
Martin Kemp, ed., Leonardo on Painting (Yale University Press)
David Rosand, The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian (Spencer Museum
of Art)
Robert Klein and Henri Zerner, eds., Italian Art, 1500-1600 (Sources and
Documents) (Northwestern University Press)
Books on Reserve in Avery Library
Cornini, Guido, et al., Raphael in the Apartments of Julius II and Leo X,
Milan: Electa, 1993
Freedberg, S.J., Painting in Italy: 1500-1600 (Pelican History of Art),
2nd ed., Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1983; 3rd ed., New Haven and London:
Yale University Press, 1993
Friedlaender, Walter, Mannerism and Anti-Mannerism in Italian Painting,
(1957), New York: Columbia University Press, 1990
Gombrich, E.H., Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance,
London: Phaidon Press, 1966
Gombrich, E.H., Symbolic Images: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance,
London: Phaidon Press, 1972
Gombrich, E.H., The Heritage of Apelles: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance,
Oxford: Phaidon Press, 1972
Hirst, Michael, et al., La Cappella Sistina: La volta restaurata, Novara:
Istituto Geografico de Agostini, 1992
Humfrey, Peter, and Martin Kemp, eds., The Altarpiece in the Renaissance,
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990
Kemp, Martin, ed., Leonardo on Painting, New Haven and London: Yale University
Press, 1989
Klein, Robert, and Henri Zerner, eds., Italian Art: 1500-1600 (Sources and
Documents), Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1966
Nesselrath, Arnold, Raphael's School of Athens (Recent Restorations of
the Vatican Museums, vol. 1), Vatican City: Edizioni Musei Vaticani, 1997
Panofsky, Erwin, Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the
Renaissance (1939), New York: Harper & Row, 1962
Pietrangeli, Carlo, et al., The Sistine Chapel: A Glorious Restoration,
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994
Rosand, David, The Meaning of the Mark: Leonardo and Titian (The Franklin
D. Murphy Lectures VIII), Spencer Museum of Art: Lawrence, KS, 1988
Rosand, David, Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto
(1982), rev. ed., Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997
Seymour, Charles, Jr., ed., Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling
(Norton Critical Studies in Art History), New York: W. W. Norton, 1972
Shearman, John, Mannerism, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1967
Shearman, John, Only Connect...: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance
(The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 1988), Princeton: Princeton University
Press, 1992
Vasari, Giorgio, The Lives of the Artists, trans. George Bull, 2 vols.,
Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1971-1987
Wölfflin, Heinrich, Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance,
London: Phaidon, 1953
On Portrature
For further reference
John Pope-Hennessy, The Portrait in the Renaissance (New York: Pantheon
Books, 1966): a most intelligent and sensitive introduction to the interpretive
issues
Jodi Cranston, The Poetics of Portraiture in the Italian Renaissance
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000): particularly sensitive
critical analyses of the ways portrait imagery operates--with regard to the
beholder, time, self-expression and reflection, and death
David Rosand, "The Portrait, the Courtier, and Death," in Castiglione: The
Ideal and the Real in Renaissance Culture, ed. Robert W. Hanning and David
Rosand (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1983), pp. 91-129: on the
affective dimension of Renaissance portraiture
John Shearman, Only ConnectŠ: Art and the Spectator in the Italian Renaissance
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992): chapter III, "Portraits and Poets,"
on the articulated engagement of the viewer (R)
Lorne Campbell, Renaissance Portraits European Portrait-Painting in the 14th
15th and 16th Centuries (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1990):
a rather pedestrian text with particular emphasis on Northern European imagery
Richard Brilliant, Portraiture (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University
Press, 1991): a more general and theoretical study of the genre