ITALIAN RENAISSANCE ART
A GUIDE TO RESOURCES
This guide will help you locate resources on Italian Art of the 15th and !6th Centuries. It is interdisciplinary in scope, covering selected humanities resources.
Encylopedias & Dictionaries: Art
A good place to begin research on any topic.
Dictionary
of Art. (34 vols.) Edited by Jane Turner. NY: Grove Dictionaries,
1996.
Fine Arts Ready Ref.N31 .D5 1996
Grove
Dictionary of Art Online
The electronic version of the Dictionary of Art listed above. Periodically
updated.
Encyclopedia
of World Art. (17vols.) NY: McGraw-Hill, 1959-1987
Fine Arts Ref. N31. E533
Encyclopedia
of Italian Renaisance & Mannerist Art. (2 vols.) Edited by Jane
Turner. NY: Grove Dictionaries, 2000.
Fine Arts Ref. N6370 .E53 2000
Encyclopedias & Dictionaries: History
Encyclopedia
of the Renaissance. (6 vols.) Edited by Paul Grendler. NY: Scribners,
1999.
CB361.E52 1999 1st Floor Reference
Hutchinson
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance. Edited by David Rundle. Boulder,CO:
Westview Press, 1999.
CB361.H88 1999 1st Floor Reference
Specialized lists of books and articles.
Dugento
Painting: an annotated bibliography. James Stubblebine. Boston: G.K.
Hall, 1983
Fine Arts Ref. ND613.S8 1983 (Italian painting of the Middle Ages)
Central
Italian Painting: an annotated bibliography. Martha Dunkelman. Boston:
G.K. Hall, 1986.
Fine Arts Ref. N6919.C46 D86 1986
Fifteenth-Century
North Italian Painting : an annotated bibliography. Charles Rosenberg.
Boston: G.K. Hall,1986.
Fine Arts Ref. N6919.N67 R67 1986
Fifteenth-Century
Central Italian Sculpture:an annotated bibliography. Sarah Wilk. Boston:
G.K. Hall, 1986.
Fine Arts Ref. NB619.C44 W54 1986
Note: for lists of standard monographs on individual artists see:
Freitag,
Wolfgang. Art Books: A Basic Bibliography of Monographs on Artists.
NY: Garland, 1997.
Fine Arts Ready Reference N40.F73 1997
Indexes
to papers and essays written in honor of scholars of art history. These
indicies include access to these essays by subject.
Rave, Paul. Kunstgeschichte in Festschriften. Berlin: Mann, 1962.
Fine Arts Ref. Z5931.R35
Lincoln,
Betty. Festschriften in Art History 1960-1975. NY: Garland, 1988.
Fine Arts Ref. N7442.L56 1988
Note: For festschriften published after 1975 see the online database for BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art).
Provide clearly compiled information with easy-to-find facts.
The
Handbook of Italian Renaissance Painters. Karl Gallwitz. NY: Prestel,
1999.
Fine Arts Ref. ND615.G3313 1999
Good overviews of the subject.
Art
in Renaissance Italy. (2nd ed.)John Paoletti & Gary Radke. NY:
Abrams, 2002.
N6915 .P26 2002
History
of Italian Renaissance Art: painting, sculpture, architecture. (5th
ed.) Frederick Hartt and David Wilkins. NY: Abrams, 2003.
N6915 .H37 2003
Guides to the meaning of symbols in art, with an emphasis upon Christian and Classical themes.
General:
Biedermann,
Hans. Dictionary of Symbolism. NY: Facts on File, 1992.
Fine Arts Ref. AZ108.B5313 1992
Cirlot,
Juan Edouard. A Dictionary of Symbols. 2nd ed. NY: Philosophical
Library, Inc., 1972.
Fine Arts Ref. BF1623.S9C513
Cooper,
J.C. An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Traditional Symbols. London:
Thames & Hudson, 1987
Fine Arts Ref. BL603.C66
Hall,
James. Dictionary of Symbols in Art. NY: Harper & Row, 1974.
Fine Arts Ready Ref. N7560.H34
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Illustrated Dictionary of Symbols in Eastern and Western Art. London:
John Murray, 1994.
Fine Arts Ref.N7440.H34 1994
Classical:
Preston,
Percy. Dictionary of Pictorial Subjects from Classical Literature:
A Guide to their Identification in Works of Art. NY: Charles Scribner's
Sons, 1983.
Fine Arts Ref. N7760.P68 1983
Reid,
Jane. The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300-1990s.
NY: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Fine Arts Ref. NX650.M9 R45 1993
Christian:
Butler's
Lives of the Saints. rev. ed. Westminster, MD: Christian Classics,
Inc., 1956.
Fine Arts Ref. BX4654.B8 1956
Ferguson,
George. Signs and Symbols in Christian Art. NY: Oxford University
Press, 1954.
Fine Arts Ready Ref. N7830.F37
Jacobus
de Varagine. The Golden Legend or Lives of the Saints. NY: AMS
Press, Inc., 1973.
Fine Arts Ref. BX4654.J313 1973
Kirschbaum,
Englebert. Lexikon der Christlichen Ikonographie. Rome: Harder,
1968.
Fine Arts Ref. BV150.L4
Books at Syracuse University:
SUMMIT may be searched by author, title, subject or keywords.
Books at other libraries:
(Use the 2 databases below and items not owned by SU Library may be
requested via Interlibrary Loan's ILLIAD
system)
Over 36 million records of materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Includes manuscripts written as early as the 11th century. Updated daily.
The RLG Union Catalog (RLIN) is a comprehensive database which serves as a major union catalog for everything from books and serials to archives, manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files, and more. The Catalog extends from the advent of printing to the present, reflecting the collections of major research and academic libraries; archives and museums; law, medical, and theological libraries; art and music libraries; area studies collections; public and corporate libraries; historical societies and book clubs. Records include the names of contributing libraries as well as local call numbers. Access Note: Two simultaneous users only. Please use the exit button when research is complete.
Ph. D. dissertations and selected masters theses with abstracts from 1861 to the present.
Locating Journal Articles:
The following databases
will help you locate articles in journals and periodicals.
You will need to check SUMMIT
to determine if Syracuse University Library owns the journal that you
are seeking. If it is not owned by the Library, you may request a copy
of the article through ILLIAD,
the Library's Interlibrary Loan System.
Bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art index.(1929-1984)
Bibliographic database that cumulates citations to Art index (1984-present)
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Indexes more than 2,000 periodicals published worldwide on archaeology, city planning, interior design, and historic preservation, as well as architecture. Coverage is from the 1930s (with selective coverage dating back to the 1860s) to the present.
Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA)
Covering European and American art from late antiquity to the present, BHA indexes and abstracts art-related books, conference proceedings, dissertations, exhibition and dealer's catalogs, and articles from more than 2,500 periodicals. Updated quarterly. Combines entries from the print indexes RILA (1975-1989) and Repertoire d'art et d'archeologie (1973-1989) and extends their coverage from then until the present.
Repertoire d'art et d'archeologie
For articles prior to 1973 you will need to use this print index to
supplement the coverage of BHA. There are volumes covering 1910-1963
and 1965-1989 available in the Fine Arts Index carrels on the 4th floor
of E.S. Bird Library.
Z5937.R4
RILA
For articles published between 1973 and 1975 and not covered in BHA
you will need to use the print version of this index located in the
Fine Arts Index carrels on the 4th floor of E.S. Bird Library
NI.R5
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present.
International Medieval Bibliography
Bibliography of journal articles and miscellany volumes (conference proceedings, essay collections, Festschriften) comprising 300,000 articles. Updated quarterly the IMB-Online covers publications from 1967-present with enhanced search capabilities (by periods, places, persons, and texts). Includes medieval art.
Indexes articles from arts and humanities journals plus relevant articles from over 5,000 social science and science journals. Includes additional records providing the preferred form of cited authors' names.
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Updated monthly, FRANCIS covers 1984 to the present.
Index and abstracts to 465 periodicals in archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Indexing from February 1984 to the present, abstracts from March 1994. Updated monthly.
EEBO: Early English Books Onlne
Full text of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661). Among the thousands of titles featured in EEBO are works by Malory, Bacon, More, Erasmus, Boyle, Newton, Galileo; musical exercises by Henry Purcell and novels by Aphra Behn; prayer books, pamphlets, and proclamations; almanacs, calendars, and many other primary sources.
Index to English or English-language letterpress materials published before 1801. Contains records for items of all types published in Great Britain or its colonies or in English from 1473 to 1800. Updated daily.
Contains 221 volumes and represents a complete electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina (1844-1855 and 1862-1865).
These SGML encoded texts cover a period from 1400 to 1850 and can
be browsed, searched, and analyzed.
Those studying the Renaissance may be particularly interested in Renaissance
Women Online, a collection of 100 Renaissance texts from the Women
Writers Online collection, accompanied by contextual and topical essays.
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians
A thoroughly revised and updated 2nd edition of the primary music dictionary-encyclopedia in the English language. It includes over 29,000 articles, 5623 of them new, and covers the entire spectrum of music with biographies, terminology, history, genres and links to illustrations.
International Index to Music Periodicals
IIMP draws its current content from 370 international music periodicals from over 20 countries. IIMP also includes retrospective coverage from over 185 periodicals dating back as far as 1874. Included in the current and retrospective titles are 29 complete-run titles, from inception to the present (or final) issue, and many partial-run titles. IIMP covers nearly all aspects of the world of music, from the most scholarly studies to the latest crazes.
Citations from international titles and 13,000 multi-author works
in and related to the field of religion. It also includes a full range
of index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works,
book reviews, and Doctor of Ministry projects from ATLA's print indexes:
Religion Index One (RIO), Religion Index Two (RIT), and Index to Book
Reviews in Religion (IBRR). Coverage is from 1949 to the present (not
all publications begin in 1949); updated biannually.
Indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language.
