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Department of History

Arts and Society in Early Modern Europe (HI3J3): Bibliography

Primary Sources

  • Alberti, Leon Battista, On Painting, New Haven-London 1966 [ND 49.A5]
  • Cellini, Benvenuto, Autobiography, Harmondsworth 1956 [NB 623.C3]
  • Cellini, Benvenuto, The Treatises of Benvenuto Cellini on Goldsmithing and Sculpture, New York 1967 [NB 623.C3]
  • Cennini, Cennino, The Craftsman’s Handbook: The Italian ‘Il libro dell’arte’, New York 1960 [ND 1130.C3]

Secondary Works

  • Chambers, David S. (ed), Patrons and Artists in the Italian Renaissance, London 1970 [N 6915.C4]
  • Condivi, Ascanio, The Life of Michelangelo, ed. Helmut Wohl, Philadephia 1999 [other edition NB 623.M4]
  • Denvir, Bernard (ed), From the Middle Ages to the Stuarts: Art, Design and Society before 1689, London 1988 [N 6765.D3]
  • Edwards, Steve (ed), Art and its Histories. A Reader, London 1999 [N 6350.AZ]
  • Enggass, Robert - Brown, Jonathan (eds), Italian and Spanish Art, 1600-1750: sources and documents, Evanston, Ill., 1992 [N 6916.E6]
  • Gilbert, Creighton E. (ed), Italian Art 1400-1500. Sources and Documents, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1980 [N 6915.G4]
  • Harrison, Charles – Wood, Paul – Gaiger, Jason (eds), Art in Theory, 1648-1815. An Anthology of Changing Ideas, Oxford 2000 [N 6420.A7]
  • Holt, Elizabeth (ed.), A Documentary History of Art. Vol. 1: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, Princeton 1981 [N 5940.H6]
  • Holt, Elizabeth (ed.), A Documentary History of Art. Vol. 2: Michelangelo and the Mannerists. The Baroque and the Eighteenth Century, Princeton 1982 [N 5940.H6]
  • Klein, Robert - Zerner, Henry (eds.), Italian Art, 1500-1600: sources and documents, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1966 [N 6915.K5]
  • Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo on Painting, sel. and trans. by Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker, New Haven-London 1989 [ND 1130.L3]
  • Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, ed. Irma A. Richter, Oxford 1980 [ND 623.L3]
  • Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo: Life, Letters and Poems, ed. by George Bull, Oxford 1987 [NB 623.M4]
  • Stechov, Wolfgang, Northern Renaissance Art, 1400-1600: sources and documents, Englewood Cliffs, N.J., 1966 [N 6370.S8]
  • van Mander, Carel, Dutch and Flemish Painters, New York 1969 [ND 631.M2]
  • Vasari, Giorgio, The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects, 2 vols., London 1996 [N 6922.V2]