Books have been placed
on Reserve in the Richter Library for your Instruction (magic number
is: r107894x) and Delight. You are strongly encouraged to spend some time in the Library browsing
through the books on reserve, even if they aren't Required for the Course.
General Venetian Art History and Culture
Most of these are catalogues of exhibitions; some will be placed on reserve.
- Susanna Biadene, ed. Titian, ca. 1488-1576. Munich, 1990.
- Horatio Brown. Studies in the History of Venice. 2 vols. NYC, 1907.
- Patricia Fortini Brown. Venice and antiquity: the Venetian sense
of the past. New Haven, 1996.
- David Chambers. The Imperial Age of Venice : 1380-1580. New
York, 1971.
- Italo Furlan, ed. Venezia e Bisanzio [Venice and Byzantium].
Milan, 1974.
- Paul Hills. Venetian Colour: marble, mosaic, painting and glass,
1250-1550. New Haven, 1999.
- Deborah Howard. Venice & the East : The Impact of the Islamic World on Venetian
Architecture 1100-1500. New Haven, 2000.
- Norbert Huse and Wolfgang Wolters. The Art of Renaissance Venice:
architecture, sculpture, and painting, 1460-1590. Chicago, 1990.
- Margaretta M. Lovell. A Visitable past: views of Venice by
American artists, 1860-1915. Chicago, 1989.
- Jane Martineau and Andrew Robinson, eds. The Glory of Venice: art
in the eighteenth century. New Haven, 1994.
- Umberto Franzoi, et al. Il Palazzo Ducale di Venezia. Treviso,
1990.
- Paris, Grand Palais. Le Siecle de Titien: l'age d'or de la
peinture a Venise. Paris, 1993.
- The Treasury of San Marco, Venice. Milan, 1984.
- Cesare Vecellio. The
Clothing of the Renaissance World A generously illustrated advertisement for a new edition of
Vecellio's book on Venetian costume. Includes information about making the clothes.
- Washington, National Gallery of Art. Titian 500.
Painting
- Francis Ames-Lewis, ed. New Interpretations of Venetian Renaissance
painting. London, 1994.
- Patricia Fortini Brown. Venetian narrative painting in the age of
Carpaccio. New Haven, 1988.
- Rona Goffen. Piety and patronage in Renaissance Venice : Bellini,
Titian, and the Franciscans. New Haven, 1986.
- Rona Goffen. Giovanni Bellini. New Haven, 1989.
- Rona Goffen. Titian's Women New Haven, 1997.
- Rona Goffen. Titian's "Venus of Urbino" Cambridge and New
York City, 1997.
- Terisio Pignatti. The golden century of Venetian painting.
Los Angeles and New York, 1979.
- Juergen Schulz. Venetian painted ceilings of the Renaissance.
Berkeley, 1968.
- Johannes Wilde. Venetian art from Bellini to Titian. Oxford,
1974.
Sculpture
- Bruce Boucher. The Sculpture of Jacopo Sansovino. New Haven,
1991. 2 vols.
- Sarah Blake McHam. The Chapel of St. Anthony at the Santo and the
development of Venetian Renaissance Sculpture. Cambridge and New
York, 1994.
Architecture
- Edoardo Arslan. Gothic Architecture in Venice. London, 1972.
- Donata Battilotti. The Villas of Palladio. Milan,
1990.
- Bruce Boucher. Andrea Palladio : the architect in his time.
New York City, 1998.
- Deborah Howard. The Architectural History of Venice. Rev. & enlarged ed., New Haven, 2004.
- Deborah Howard. Jacopo Sansovino: architecture and patronage in
Renaissance Venice. New Haven, 1975.
- Douglas Lewis. The Drawings of Andrea Palladio. Washington,
D.C.
- Giuseppe Mazzotti. Venetian villas. Rome,
1957.
- Lionello Puppi. Palladio Drawings. New York City, 1990.
"Better than a Novel"
- Maria Laura Lepscky Mueller.
La famiglia di Daniele Manin Venice, 2005. "It is an extremely gripping narrative about Manin's
family life, which fills out the background to the 1848 revolution in a most illuminating way.
I thoroughly recommend it to anyone with Venetian interests." Deborah Howard, serenissima, Sunday,
January 1, 2006.
- Alberto Toso Fei.
Veneziaenigma. Elzeviro, 2004. "Tredici secoli di cronache, misteri, curiosita e
straordinarie vicende tra storia e mito". Recommended by Vesna Velkovrh-Bukilica, serenissima,
Friday, December 30, 2005.
