Recommended Reading from the web
The Anatomy of Sacred Art: Parts I and II By: Anthony Visco
- As the Old Testament begins with the Creation of the cosmos and the New Testament with the Incarnation of Christ, the Judeo-Christian world is reminded how the act of making becomes central to our faith. [More]
Distinguishing
the Essential from the Accidental By: D. Jeffrey Mims
- It must be said that each one of the arts has suffered during this past century of cultural experimentation, but none has taken a hit quite like the visual arts... [More]
José de Hermosilla y Sandoval
and the origin of the Spanish Academy By: Victor Deupi
- Since the mid-sixteenth century, when Serlio and Palladio declared Bramante "the first who brought good, and beautiful architecture to light, which from the time of the ancients had been hid."... [More]
The Eyes of Leonardo ~ The New York Review of Books By: Ingrid Rowland
- A review of the book "Leonardo Da Vinci Master Draftsman".
Architecture & Ideology: ~ The New Criterion By: Roger Kimball
- This is a must-read for anyone who feels confounded by contemporary architecture. The author reintroduces an important book,
'The Architecture of Humanism' by Geoffrey Scott with some unexpected help from Peter Eisenman and Leon Krier.
Modernism and the Perfect ~ The Metropolis Mag By: Natalia Ilyin
- Idealizing the cool, the killer, the cutting-edge, the
author argues, denies an essential piece of our souls.
Events
TITIAN ~ At the National Gallery London
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/gallery/0,8542,868290,00.html
References
Alberti Photogrammatic Drawings
http://www.bath.ac.uk/casa/alberti/index.html
FORMA URBIS ROMAE, Rodolfo Lanciani
http://www.iath.virginia.edu/waters/forma_urbis.html
Painted Humanism and Secret Renaissance
http://msimonetta.web.wesleyan.edu/wescourses/2002s/ital233/01/gallery.htm
The Italian Renaissance
http://history.hanover.edu/early/italren.htm
Rome and Renaissance scholarly sites:
a lively, fascinating Medici
archive project
http://www.medici.org./
Italian and Dante studies
http://www.italnet.nd.edu/
Lectures at the American Academy in Rome
http://www.aarome.org/events.htm
Events at the British School in Rome
http://www.bsr.ac.uk/events.html
Bibliotecha Hertziana, the German Academy in Rome
http://www.biblh
ertz.it
Census of Ancient Art Known to the Renaissance
http://www.arthist ory.hu-berlin.de/census/pegasus.html
Antiquities
http://www.aiac.org/links.htm
Humanist themes:
Mythology:
http://www.getty.e
du/art/collections/subjects/s38.html
Artists & Architects
Bernini
http://www.boglewood.com/cornaro/xbernini.html
Reference Sites for Researchers
Studying the Renaissance with the Open University
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/renaissance2/index.html
Art Images for College Teaching & Research
The Web Gallery of Art
http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/welcome.html
http://gallery.euroweb.hu/index.html
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/index.html
http://www.mcad.edu/AICT/html/renbrq.html
Art History Resources
Georgio Vasari: The Lives of Artists
http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/giorgio.vasari/vaspref.htm
http://search.freefind.com/find.html?id=9930783&m=0&p=0
http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks2.html#general
http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/surveys/italren/renart/
Rome Images
Images of Rome By: Kalervo Koskimies
- A neat collection from all areas of Rome.
More for fun
Roman Holiday: City Scenes
- A simple appreciation of Rome for what it is by an enthused tourist

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