THE BEGINNINGS OF A MODERN HUMANIST BIBLIOGRAPHY
Updated: July 16, 2002
Works that Bring Alive the Humanist Tradition for
Contemporary Artists and Architects
James S. Ackerman, Distance Points: Essays in Theory and
Renaissance Art and Architecture. MIT Press, 1991
Leon Batista Alberti, On the Art of Building in Ten
Books, first edition 1486, Florence; trans. Joseph Rykwert et al
Leon Battista Alberti, Cecil Grayson's translation of, On
Painting, Penguin Books
Francis Ames-Lewis, The Intellectual Life of the Early
Renaissance Artist, Yale Univ. Press, 2000
Svetlana Alpers and Michael Baxandall, Tiepolo and the
Pictorial Intelligence, Yale University Press,
Hannah Arendt, Between Past and Future, New York, Penguin
Books, 1993
George Boas, The Hieroglyphics of Horapollo, New York, 1950
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities, trans. William Weaver,
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974
Giovanni Careri, Bernini: Fligths of Love, The Art of
Devotion, Univ. of Chicago
David Coffin, The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome, Princeton
Roberto Colasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, New
York, Knopf
Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachi Poliphili, 1499, Thames
& Hudson, 1999
Charles Dempsey, The Portrayal of Love,
Umberto Eco, Art & Beauty in the Middle Ages, Chicago:
Univ. of Chicago Press, 1993
Umberto Eco, Six Walks in the Fictional Woods, Cambrige:
Harvard University Press, 1994
T. S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent
Jack Frieberg, The Lateran and Clement VIII, Ann Arbor:
University Microfilms International, 1988
Chiara Frugoni, A Distant City, Princeton Univ. Press
Alberto Pérez Gomez, Architecture and the Crisis of Modern
Science , MIT Press, 1990, p.11
James Hall, Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art,
New York, Icon Editions, Harper & Row, 1979
Frederick Hammond, Music & Spectacle in Baroque Rome,
Yale Univ. Press,
Ivan Illich, In the Vineyard of the Text: A Commentary to
Hugh's Didascalicon, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993
Vaughan Hart, Paper Palaces: The Rise of the Renaissance
Architecture Treatise, Yale, 1998
Homer, trans. Robert Fagles, The Iliad, New York, Penguin Books, 1991
J. Huizinga, The Waning of the Middle Ages, Harmondsworth, 1965
R.J. Ingersoll, The Ritual Use of Public Space in Renaissance
Rome, Ann Arbor: University Microfilms International, 1993
Kemp, M. and M. Walker, eds., Leonardo on Painting, New
Haven and London, 1989
Timothy Kitao, Circle and Oval in the Square of Saint
Peter's, New York: New York University Press, 1974
William L. MacDonald and John A. Pinto, Hadrian's Villa and
Its Legacy, Yale Univ. Press, 1995
Giancarlo Maiorino, The Cornucopia Mind and the Baroque Unity
of the Arts, State College: Pennsylvania State University
Press,1990
Georgina Masson, The Companion Guide to Rome, Glasgow:
Fontana/Collins, 1978
Compilation - Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Volume XXXV,
Rome: Edizioni Dell'Elefante, 1980
Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays of Montaigne,
trans. Donald Frame, Stanford 1965
Michel de Montaigne, Travel Journal, trans. by Donald M.
Frame, San Francisco, North Point Press, 1983
Edward Muir, Civic Ritual in Renaissance Venice,
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980
John Onians, Bearers of Meaning, Princeton, 1988
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Penguin Books
Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism,
New York, The New American Library, 1976
Compilation - The Renaissance: From Brunelleschi to Michelangelo, New
York: Rizoli, 1994
Compilation - Rome in the Renaissance: The City and the Myth,
Binghampton, NY: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies
Ingrid Rowland, The Culture of the High Renaissance,
Cambridge, 1999
Jean Seznec, The Survival of the Pagan Gods, Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1981
John Shearman, Only Connect..., Princeton, Princeton
Univ. Press, 1992
Christine Smith, Architecture in the Culture of Early
Humanism, Cambridge
Graham Smith, The Casino of Pius IV,
Jonathon D. Spence, The Memory Palace of Matteo Ricci,
New York, Viking Penguin, 1984
Charles L. Stinger, The Renaissance in Rome, Indiana Univ. Press
Richard C. Trexler, Public Life in Renaissance Florence,
New York: Academic Press, 1979
Giorgio Vasari, trans. George Bull, Lives of the
Artists, Penguin Books
Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture, Ingrid D. Rowland
and Thomas Noble Howe, eds., Cambridge, 1999
Patricia Waddy, Seventeenth Century Roman Palaces: Use and
the Art of the Plan, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1990
Mark S. Weil, The History and Decoration of the Ponte Sant
Angelo, State College: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974
Carroll William Westfall, In This Most Perfect Paradise,
State College, Pa., 1974
Edgar Wind, Pagan Mysteries in the Renaissance, New York,
W.W. Norton, 1968
Rudolf Wittkower, Allegory and the Migration of Symbols,
New York, Thames & Hudson, 1977
Rudolf Wittkower, Art and Architecture in Italy:
1600-1750, New York: Penguin Books, 1980
Frances Yates, The Art of Memory, Univ. of Chicago
Francis A. Yates, French Academies of the Sixteenth
Century, New York, Routledge, 1988
Paul Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus,
Michigan, 1990
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