Michael A. Vuksta
The following books have been useful in forming my opinions and as sources of images from which I gleaned my slides:
Alpers, Svetlana.
The Art of Describing
, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Ill., 1983.
Slide #23—Fig. 79 Map of Africa in William Jansz. Blaeu,
World Atlas
(1630). Page 135.
Argan, Giulio C.
The Renaissance City
, George Brasiller, New York, N.Y., 1964.
Braun, Georg and Hogenberg, Fritz.
Old European Cities
, maps and texts from
Civitates Orbis Terrarum
; Thames and Hudson, London: 1965.
Slide #14—Map of London Page 66 & 67.
Edgerton, Samuel Y., Jr. “Florentine Interest in Ptolemaic Cartography as a Background for Renaissance Painting, Architecture, and the Discovery of America”,
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
, Vol. XXXIII, No. 4, Dec. 1974, pp. 275292.
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The Renaissance Rediscovery of Linear Perspective
, Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1975.
Foakes, R.A.
Illustrations of the English Stage 15801642
, Scolar Press, London, 1985.
Slide #15—No.4 map of London, by John Norden, from
Speculum Britannicae
. Page 6.
Slide #19—No.15 Matthias Merian, view of London Page 27.
Gadol, Joan.
Leon Battista Alberti, Universal Man of the Renaissance
. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago Ill., 1969.
Slide #10—Fig. 47 the Hereford World Map, 127683 Page 159.
Glanville, Phillipa.
London in Maps
, The Connoisseur, London, 1972.
Slide #13—The earliest printed view of London, woodcut by W. deWorde, Westminster, 1497. Page 16.
Slide #11—Plate 1. Section of an itinerary from London to Rome by Matthew Paris, c. 1252. Page 73.
Slide #16—Plate 5. Bird’seye view of London from the
Particular Description of England
by William Smith; 1588. Page 80.
Slide #12—The road from London to St. Albans from
Brittania. . .Principal Roads Thereof
by John Ogilby,1675. Page 97.
Haak, Bob.
The Golden Age, Dutch Painting of the Seventeenth Century
, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1984.
Slide #22—Fig. 3 Abraham Goos, Map of the Seventeen Provinces 1621. Page 15.
Hyde, Ralph.
Gilded Scenes and Shining Prospects
, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT., 1985. Exhibition Catalogue.
Slide #17—No. 4
Civitas Londini
: John Norden, 1600. Page 43.
Slide #18—No. 5 London, C. J. Visscher, 1616. Page 44 & 45.
Slide #20—No. 10 London, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647. Page 50 & 51.
Lopez, Robert S. “The Crossroads Within the Wall”, in Handlin, Oscar and Buchard, John.
The Historian and the City
, The MIT Press and Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1963.
Manley, Lawrence, ed.,
London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology
, Croom Helm, 1986.
Mumford, Lewis.
The City in History
, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, N.Y., 1961.
Rosenau, Helen.
The Ideal City
, Third ed., Methuen and Co. Ltd., New York, N.Y., 1983.
Slide #2—Fig. 17 Jerusalem, drawing from a 12th century
Passionale
. Page 31.
Schulz, Juergen. “Jacopo de Barbari’s View of Venice: Mapmaking, City Views and Moralized Geography Before the Year 1500.”,
Art Bulletin
, Vol. LX, No. 3, Sept. 1978, pp. 425474.
Slide #9—Fig.15 Anonymous,
Mappamundi
, ca. 1235-1250, brush, colored washes, and body colors in parchment. Page 451.
Slide #3—Fig. 18 Anonymous,
situs Jerusalem
, after 1164, brush and wash on parchment.
Southworth, Michael and Susan.
Maps
, LittleBrown and company, Boston, Mass., 1982.
Slide #5—Fig. 1.4 Illuminated TinO map Page 14.
Slide #4—Fig. 2.9A Zacharias,
Orbis frevarium
, Florence,1493. Page 26.
Slide #7—Fig. 2.9B Rectangular version, Beatus a Benedictine monk, A.D. 787. Page 26.
Slide #6—Fig. 2.9C from
Ymago mundi
of Pierre d’Ailly, Louvain, c.1483. Page 26.
Slide #8—Fig. 2.9D
Rudimentum navitiorium
, Lubeck, 1475. Page 27.
Stewart, T.C.
The City as an Image of Man
, Latimer Press, London,1970. Slide #1—Egyptian hieroglyph for a city or a town.
Strauss, Leo.
The City and Man
, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago Ill., 1964.
University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Art a la Carte, Decorative Imagery in Maps, 16001800
, Ann Arbor, Mich., 1979. Exhibition catalogue.
Westfall, Carroll William.
In This Most Perfect Paradise
, The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa., 1974.
Other books which have been used in forming my understanding of aesthetics, the Renaissance and cities are:
Bachelard, Gaston.
The Poetics of Space
, Beacon Press, Boston, Mass.,1964.
Cassirer, Ernst.
The Individual and the Cosmos in Renaissance Phihlosophy
, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, Pa., 1963.
Langer, Susanne K.
Feeling and Form
, Scribner’s, New York, N.Y., 1953.
Saalman, Howard.
Medieval Cities
, George Braziller, New York, N.Y., 1968.
Ullman, Walter.
Medieval Foundations of Renaissance Humanism
, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, N.Y., 1977.
Ashbery, John.
SelfPortrait in a Convex Mirror
, The Viking Press, New York, N.Y., 1975.
