Renaissance art and architecture: Bibliography

See A. Blunt, Artistic Theory in Italy, 1450–1600 (1940, repr. 1982) and Art and Architecture in France, 1500–1700 (4th ed. 1980); E. H. J. Gombrich, Norm and Form (1966) and Symbolic Images (1972); R. Wittkower, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (3d ed. 1962, repr. 1965); C. Gilbert, History of Renaissance Art (1973); S. J. Freedberg, Painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence (2 vol., 1985); P. Murray, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance (repr. 1986); J. S. Ackerman, Distance Points: Studies in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture (1991); C. Harbison, The Mirror of the Artist: Northern Renaissance Art in Its Historical Context (1995); L. Barkan, Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (2000).

Sections in this article:

• Introduction
• Renaissance Architecture Elsewhere in Europe
• French Architecture
• Italian Renaissance Architecture
• Architecture of the Renaissance
• Renaissance Art Elsewhere in Europe
• German Art
• The Flemish Renaissance
• The Italian Renaissance
• Bibliography

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