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The following list is intended primarily for use as a starting point in your research. These books will provide you with only a brief introduction to the material you are researching. They will, however, identify for you the principal points and features of the work you have selected. Consult the Bibliography in Hartt and Snyder for additional published resources. Use LION and other online library catalogue resources to find more material.
History of Italian Renaissance Art : Painting, Sculpture, Architecture
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1987.
Northern Renaissance Art : Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350 to 1575
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : New York : Prentice-Hall ; Abrams, 1985.
Northern Painting from Pucelle to Bruegel: Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Sixteenth Centuries
New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston 1968
Painting in Italy, 1500 to 1600
[Harmondsworth, Middlesex, Baltimore] Penguin Books [1971, 1970]
Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors & Architects
(tr. by Gaston du C. de Vere)
London, Macmillan and Co., & The Medici Society, 1912-15.
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art
London : J. Murray, 1974
Signs & Symbols in Christian Art
New York, Oxford University Press [1959]
Dictionary of Christian Art
New York : Continuum, 1994.
From Abacus to Zeus : A Handbook of Art History
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, 1977.
A Short Guide to Writing about Art
Boston : Little, Brown, 1981
The materials found at this website for the course EUROPEAN ART IN THE 16TH CENTURY (ARTH 116) have been compiled and written by Chris Witcombe, Professor of Art History, Sweet Briar College in Virginia, 24595 USA (phone: 804-381-6194 / fax: 804-381-6494). For more information, please email him at witcombe@sbc.edu
