5) General RESOURCES for the mini-course

5) GENERAL RESOURCES for various topics in the mini-course:

Best general text –        Frederick Hartt, Italian Renaissance Art

Best other book to read - Michael Baxandall, Painting and Experience in
                                                                         15th-century Italy

To identify saints? -James Hall, Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art

Original texts by and about artists? - Creighton Gilbert (Sources and Documents)

One-point perspective -Samuel Edgerton, John White

Historical background on the Medici -Christopher Hibbert

Drawings - Ames-Lewis, Carmen Bambach //Wood Inlay - Margaret Haines
Architecture - Peter Murray, J. Ackerman  //    Materials?    Bruce Cole
Sculpture-       Pope-Hennessy                    //    Courts?         Alison Cole 
Portraiture -      Keith Christiansen, Pope-Hennessy //     Tondi? Roberta Olson
Certain artists?  

Wilkins on Donatello, Krautheimer on Ghiberti, Ross King on Brunelleschi Andrew Ladis on Masaccio,Laurence Kanter on Angelico 
Hellmut Wohl on Veneziano,Ronald Lightbown on Botticelli

Howard Hibbard on Michelangelo, Nicholas Penny on Raphael

Carlo Pedretti, Bambach, Martin Kemp on Leonardo

David Rosand, Patricia-Fortini Brown, or Rona Goffen - Venetian artists

Certain exhibitions?

Washington, D.C - Circa 1492 exhibit in 1992 and Titian exhibit in 1991

Certain works? 

Brancacci Chapel - Andrew Ladis, San Marco - William Hood
Medici Chapel (Gozzoli) - Cristina Acidini Luchinat
Piero della Francesca's Arezzo frescoes - Carlo Bertelli
Botticelli's Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi) - Rab Hatfield 
Pollaiuolo's Hercules series - Alison Wright

Raphael's School of Athens - Marcia Hall
Bramante's Tempietto - Jack Freiberg

I think to understand the 15th century, a good look at Brunelleschi, Masaccio, Donatello, Piero, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio is all you need. But maybe Ghiberti's doors, too, and Pollaiuolo and Verrocchio, and, of course early Michelangelo and Leonardo. Oh well, so much greatness, so little time!

Interesting minds to read:  Leo Steinberg, Christina Klapisch-Zuber, Ingrid Rowland, Ernst Gombrich.