RENAISSANCE & MANNERISM * Denotes required readings provided in xerox format and on reserve (R) Denotes optional readings placed on reserve in the Fine Arts Library (R) James S. Ackerman, Palladio (Baltimore: Penguin, 1966), "Villas", pp. 36-80 (R) __________, The Villa: Form & Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990), "The Early Villas of the Medici" (pp. 63-87), "Palladio's Villas and their Predecessors" (pp. 89-107) (R) Francis Ames-Lewis, Intellectual Life of the Early Renaissance Artist (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) *Leonard Barkan, Unearthing the Past (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999), "Vertical History" (pp. 17-26), "Certain Antiquities Cited by Pliny" (pp. 105-117) (R) Monique Mosser & Georges Teyssot (ed.), The Architecture of Western Gardens (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1991), "The Humanist Garden" (pp. 37-45), "Nature & Artifice in the Sixteenth-Century Italian Garden" (pp. 47-58) (R) Patricia Lee Rubin, Giorgio Vasari: Art & History (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995), "The Mirror of History" (pp. 151-165), "History & Art at the Court of Cosimo de' Medici" (pp. 197-214), "Visible Speech" (pp. 273-285), "Raphael, the New Apelles" (pp. 357-401) (R) Lew Andrews, Story & Space: Rebirth of Continuous Narrative (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995) *(R) Jacob Burckhardt, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (London: Penguin, 1990), "The Republics: Venice & Florence" (pp. 57-73), "The Humanists" (pp. 135-139), "Discovery of the Beauty of Landscape" (pp. 192-198) (Note: Edition in library is Harper (1958), page numbers may vary - See section titles above) *(R) Vincent Scully, Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade (New York: St. Martin's, 1991), "Italian Urbanism: The Town & the Garden" (pp. 183-219) *(R) Charles de Tolnay, Michelangelo: Sculptor, Painter, Architect (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), "VII. The Architect" (pp. 124-168), *Laurentian Library (pp. 131-136) (R) Michele Furnari, Formal Design in Renaissance Architecture: From Brunelleschi to Palladio (New York: Rizzoli, 1995), "Civilian Buildings - Villas", pp. 160-173 Ludovico Ariosto, Orlando Furioso: The Frenzy of Orlando: A Romantic Epic (New York: Viking Penguin, 1975) Rudolf Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (London: Academy, 1988) __________, Idea & Image: Studies in the Italian Renaissance (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1978) Erwin Panofsky, Studies in Iconology (New York: Harper & Row, 1967) *J. B. Bury, "Bomarzo Revisited", Journal of Garden History, Vol 5, No. 2 (1985), pp. 213-223 *(R)Arnold Hauser, Mannerism: The Crisis of the Renaissance and the Origin of Modern Art (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1965), "Concept of Mannerism" (pp. 3-22), "Alienation as the Key to Mannerism" (pp. 94-114), "Latent Mannerism of the High Renaissance" (pp. 155-180), "Concept of Space in Mannerist Architecture" (pp. 277-286) Inger Christiansen, The Painted Room: A Tale of Mantua [Andrea Mantegna, 1430-1506], trans. Denise Newman (London: Harvill, 2000) Lisa Jardine & Jerry Brotton, Global Interests: Renaissance Art between East & West (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2000), "Exchanging Identity: Breaching the Boundaries of Renaissance Europe", pp. 11-62 John Julius Norwich, A Short History of Byzantium (New York: Vintage, 1999), "The Fall [1448-53]", pp. 372-381 Bernard Lewis, Islam & the West (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993), "Europe & Islam", pp. 3-42 Deborah Howard, Venice & the East: The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian Architecture 1100-1500 (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000) Bernard Aikema & Beverly Louise Brown (ed.), Renaissance Venice & the North: Crosscurrents in the Time of Bellini, Durer, & Titian (New York: Rizzoli, 2000) Philip Drew, The Architecture of Arata Isozaki (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), "Mannerism", pp. 20-42 Manfredo Tafuri, Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects, trans. Daniel Sherer (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2006), "Roma Coda Mundi:0 The Sack of Rome: Rupture and Continuity", pp. 157-179 *** "He is the inventor of genre, of those easily movable pictures which serve neither for uses of devotion, nor of allegorical or historical teaching ... morsels of actual life, conversation or music or play, but refined upon or idealized, till they come to seem like glimpses of life from afar." --Walter Pater, "The School of Giorgione", The Renaissance: Studies in Art & Poetry (1913) |
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