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Topics in Western Civilization: Ideals of Community and the Development ofUrban Life, 1250-1700

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 86.03.08

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The Illusion of the Renaissance

Sandra Willard

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Bibliography

Abramovitz, Anita. People and spaces , Viking Press, New York, 1979.

A view of history through architecture.

Alberti, Leonbattista. On Painting , trans. John R. Spencer, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1956.

The first book on perspective written 1435.

Argan, Guilio. The Renaissance City , trans. S.E. Bassnett, George Braziller Publishers, New York, 1969.

Concise history of Renaissance city.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception , the New Version, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1954.

Analysis of the psychology of perceptionrelation to art.

____________. The Dynamics of Architectural Form, University of California Press, Berkeley, 1977.

New ways to think of citiesspacearchitecture.

Barolsky, Paul. Infinite Jest: Wit and Humor in Italian Renassance Art , University of Missouri Press, Columbia, 1978.

Some good anecdotes about the Renaissance artists.

Battersby, Martin. Trompe L’Oeil , St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1974.

Good text and pictures.

Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in the Fifteenth Century Italy , Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1972.

Good background material.

Bazin, Germain. The AvanteGarde in Painting , trans. Simon Watson Taylor, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1969.

The innovators of art from Giotto to Warhol.

Boas, George and Wrenn, H.H. What is a Picture , Schocken Books, New York, 1966.

Stimulate discussions in classroom.

Brucker, Gene. Renaissance Florence , John Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York, 1969.

History of Florence 13801450.

______________. The Society of Renaissance Florence , Harper & Row, Inc., New York, 1971.

Florence revealed through legal documents.

Bunim, Miriam Schild. Space in Medieval Painting and the Forerunners of Perspective , Ams Press, Inc., New York, 1940.

Clear understanding of history of perspective.

Cellini, Benvenuto. Autobiorgraphy of Benvenuto Cellini , edited and abridged, by Charles Hope, trans. John Addington Symonds, St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1983.

Students will enjoy reading this book.

Chamberlin, E. R. Everyday Life in Renaissance Times , G. P Putnam’s Sons, New York, 1965.

Reader for Students. Awful illustrations.

Da Vinci, Leonardo. The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci , compiled and edited from the original manuscripts by Jean Paul Richter, Vol. I. and II., Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1970.

De Campo, D. Redig. ed. Art Treasures of the Vatican , Prentice Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, N. J., 1974.

They’ve got them all. Beautiful reproductions too.

Descargues, Pierre. Perspective , Harry Abrams, Inc., New York, 1977.

History of handbooks on Perspective. Very Good.

Escher, M. C. The Graphic Work of M. C. Escher , Introduced and Explained by the Artist, Ballantine Books, New York, 1960.

Contemporary unusual Perspectives.

Ferguson, Wallace K. The Renaissance, Six Essays , Harper & Row, New York, 1953.

Essays on art by scholars from different fields.

Gablik, Suzi. Progress in Art , Rizzoli, New York, 1977.

Modern art in context of art in past.

Gardner, Helen. Art Through the Ages , Harcourt & Brace Co., New York, 4th ed., 1959. Textbook for reference.

Gardner, Howard. Art Mind and Brain , Basic Books, Inc., New York, 1982.

A cognitive approach to creativity.

Gilman, Ernest. The Curious Perspective , Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 1978.

Literary and pictorial wit in the 17th century.

Gombrich, E. H. , Art and Illusion , Bollingen Series, XXXV.5, Princeton University Press, 1960.

Study of psychology of pictorial representation.

___________. Norm and Form , Phaidon, Oxford, 1966.

Collection of essays on the Renaissance.

Guinness. Desmond and Sadler, T. Jr., Palladio , Viking Press, New York, 1976.

Influence of Palladio on architecture.

Hartnoll, Phyllis. The Concise History of Theatre , Harry N. Abrams, New York, no date.

Medieval to modern times.

Harvey, Miranda. Piranesi The Imaginary Views , Harmony Books, New York, 1960.

Late 17th century artist.

Haskell, Francis. Patrons and Painters , Chatto & Windus, London, 1963.

Art and Society in the age of the Baroque.

Ivins, William M. Jr. Art & Geometry , Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 1946.

Investigation of ancient Greek thought.

Kernodle, George R. From Art to Theatre , University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1944.

History of Renaissance theatre.

Leeman, Fred. Hidden Images , Harry Abrams, New York, 1976.

Curious perspectives.

Magnuson, Torgil. Rome in the Age of Bernini Vol. I. , Humanities Press, N. J., 1982.

Martin, John Rupert. Baroque , Harper & Row, New York, 1977.

Background material.

Panofsky, Erwin. The Codex Huygens and Leonardo Da Vinci’s Art Theory , Pierpoint Morgan Library, Codex: M.A. 1139, London—The Warburg Institute, 1940.

_______ . Gothic , New American Library, Saint Vincent Archabbey, 1951.

Art, philosophy, religion in the Middles Ages.

Partridge, Loren and Starn, Randolph. A Renaissance Likeness , University of California Press, Berkeley, 1980.

Art and culture revealed by Raphael’s art.

Peckham, Morse. Man’s Rage for Chaos , Schocken Books, York, 1967.

Good section on Renaissance order.

Pirenne, M. H. Optics and Photography , Cambridge, at the University Press, 1970.

Platt, Colin. The Atlas of Medieval Man , Crescent Books, New York, 1979.

Good history text. Lavish reproductions.

Roeder, Ralph. The Man of the Renaissance , Time Incorporated, New York, 1961.

Savonarola, Machiavelli, Castiglione, and Aretino.

Schwoebel, Robert, ed. Renaissance Men and Ideas , St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1971.

Petrarch to Montaigne-religion, science, art.

Shearman, John. Mannerism , Penguin Books, 1967.

Excellent background material.

Simson, Otto von. The Gothic Cathedral , Bollingen Series XLVIII, Princeton University Press. 1956.

Medieval concept—order, harmony and art.

Summerson, John. The Classical Language of Architecutre , M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1985.

Nomenclature of classical architecture.

Supher, Wulie, Four Stages of Renaissance Style , Anchor Doubleday, and Co., Inc. N.J., 1955.

14001700 Transformations in art and literature.

Tuchman, Barbara. W. A Distant Mirror , Ballantine Books, New York, 1978.

14th century Europe. Students will enjoy also.

Vasari, Giorgio. Artists of the Renaissance , trans. George Bull, Viking Press, New York, 1965.

White, John. The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space . Boston Book and Art Shop, Boston, Massachusetts, 1967.

Good history of perspective.

Wittkower, Rudolf. Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism , W. W. Norton & Co., Inc., New York, 1962.

Alberti to Palladio.

Wolfflin, Heinrich. Renaissance and Baroque , trans. Kathrin Simon, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York, 1964.

Styles of art—development of Baroque.

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