Oxford Art Online

The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance

The Four Books on Architecture. / Andrea Palladio; translated by Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield. NA2515 .P253 1997

On the Art of Building in Ten Books. / Leon Battista Alberti; translated by Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor. NA2515 .A3513 1988

Paper Palaces: the Rise of the Renaissance Architectural Treatise. / edited by Vaughan Hart with Peter Hicks. NA2515 .P36 1998

Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the history of architectural theory. / Mario Carpo ; translated by Sarah Benson. NA2584 .C3713 2001

Italian Art, 1500-1600; Sources and Documents. / compiled by [by] Robert Klein and Henri Zerner. Oversize: N6915 .K55

A. Use Library Catalogs to find books

1. Tufts Libraries Catalog

2. WorldCat (beyond Tufts)

B. Searches & Results

(note the search pattern; modify to your own needs)

1. focus on architects , e.g.

Romano, Giulio (Last name first)

Palladio Andrea

 

2. On style and geographic regions:

Rococo and architect* and (France or French)

 

3. Focus on Building types (domestic or residential):

architect* and renaissance and (domestic* or residen*)

 

Note:

1. include "and" in between keywords;

2. "or" and ( ) to nest related/varied expressions;

3. architect* for all forms: architect, architecture, architectural, etc.

 

 

4. Browse by type, style, topics, etc. :

Architecture, Renaissance

Architecture Baroque

Cathedrals

church architecture

Liturgy and architecture 

architects and builders

architects and patrons

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Path of Discovery in the Catalogs

1. Find a title/author (assigned readings/Course Reserves);

2. Note the descriptive language of the Catalog record.

3. Use that language in further searches

 

e.g. Click on subject/author in the record to see further results and related topics.

 

Author	Thomson David 1951
Title	Renaissance Architecture: Critics, Patrons, Luxury.
Publisher	Manchester; New York: Manchester University Press, c1993.
Subject	Architecture, Renaissance.
	Architects and patrons.
	Architecture and society -- History -- 16th century.

Icons of Renaissance Architecture. / Alexander Markschies. Oversize: NA510 .M37 2003

Baroque Architecture. / Christian Norberg-Schulz. Oversize: NA590 .N6 2003

Studies in Iconology; Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance. / Erwin Panofsky. N6370 .P3 1962

Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art./ Erwin Panofsky. N 6370 P28 1960

Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism [by] Rudolf Wittkower. Reserves: NA520 .W5 1967

Architecture in Britain, 1530 to 1830. / John Summerson; with colour photography by A.F. Kersting. NA964 .S85 1993

British Architectural Theory, 1540-1750: an Anthology of Texts. / edited by Caroline van Eck with contributions by Christy Anderson. NA966 .B75 2003

Classical Architecture in Britain: the Heroic Age. / Giles Worsley. NA966.5.C55 W67 1995

Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700. / Anthony Blunt. N6845 .B59 1999

Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century. / Wend von Kalnein; translated from the German by David Britt. NA1046 .K35 1995

Architecture in Italy, 1500-1600. / Wolfgang Lotz; introduction by Deborah Howard; [translated by Mary Hottinger] NA1115 .L666 1995

Art and Architecture in Italy, 1600-1750. / Rudolph Wittkower; revised by Joseph Connors and Jennifer Montagu. N6916 .W5 1999

Lives of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects translated from the Italian of Giorgio Vasari; with notes and illustrations, chiefly selected from various commentators. N6922 .V4

German Renaissance architecture. / Henry-Russell Hitchcock. NA1065 .H57

A. Use Subject Databases for Journal Articles:

1 & 2. JSTOR and Project Muse

JSTOR is a favorite with its full texts in core journals of all disciplines. Project Muse does not include exactly the same JSTOR journals, but it has more recent and current articles on many topics.

 

3. Period Studies

International Medieval Bibliography (400-1500).

Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400 -1700).

4. International Bibliography of Art & Architecture (the Avery Index)

 

5. History, Religion, and Women's Studies

 

6. When use GoogleScholar, set your Library Links to access Tufts full texts.

B. Develop Your Search

Focus on themes of the course:

Case studies

Individual book – e.g., 1 treatise,…
Individual building – e.g., Il Redentore, St. Paul’s,…
Individual architect – e.g., Palladio, Wren,…
Individual patron – e.g., Urban VIII, member of Medici family,… (possibly
patronage across multiple media?)

Building type – e.g., church architecture, domestic architecture, etc.

Interior decoration – frescoes, tapestries, plasterwork,…

Materials – stone, brick, wood,…

Thematic studies delineated by chronological and geographical limits – e.g., attitudes toward the Classical Orders in England, France,…

Visual depictions of buildings – paintings, engravings,…

Written descriptions of buildings – guidebooks, novels, travel journals, poetry…

 

C. Review Articles

Reviews of recent books and other types of review articles in major journals in a discipline are likely to summarize the current state of research in an area.

Examples of reviews of a Book:

Reeve, Matthew M. "The Formation of English Gothic: Architecture and Identity." Speculum 83:3 (2008), 688-690.

Thurlby, Malcolm. "The Formation of English Gothic: Architecture and Identity." Jounral of the Society of Architectural Historians  66:4 (2007), 527-528.

 

 

A Few Core Journals:

Renaissance Quarterly

Renaissance Studies  

 

Architectural History

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

 

 

The Art Bulletin.

Art History

D. More Articles like this "perfect" one

How:

Search, in Arts and Humanities Citation Index, for the article you have read.

For example:

Scheller Robert W. "Imperial Themes in Art and Literature of the Early French Renaissace - the Period of Charles-VIII" Simiolus-Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art   12: 1 (1981), 5-69.
References: 278 Times Cited: 5

You can, then, look up, in the record, the 278 references that Robert W. cited for his article and, in turn, 5 articles that cited his. The assumption is that these articles address related issues.

 

 

Note:

1. Not every single article is cited;
2. Influential authors are cited more often;
3. More recent publications take time to be cited.

1. Click on the button in your search results screen to a window of three sequential options:

a. link to the digital full text when available;

b. link to a Library Catalog search for the print journal;

c. link to ILliad for requesting the article when the above two options are negative.

2. Search for a journal directly here:

a. Tufts Library Catalog (including e-journals)

b. Electronic journals list

c. Use ILliad to request your article, if Tufts does not have your journal.

Set up for your ILliad account

Use ILLiad, our Interlibrary Loan Service, to request articles, books and other materials that are not available at Tufts.

Chicago Style Manual (for citing sources)

RefWorks

ARTstor

More than one million images with contributions from outstanding museums, photographers, libraries, scholars, photo archives, and artists and artists' estates from all over the world.

 

(including SAHARA Project by the Society of Architectural Historians)

 

Great Buildings Collection (from the magazine Architectureweek, a vast collection of current and historical "photographic images, architectural drawings, maps, timelines, 3D building models, commentaties, bibliographies, (and) web links.")

Index of Christian Art

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Books and journals with color plates, photographs, and other visuals are excellent sources; these illustrations are usually done professionally and/or are commissioned works serving as the official records of the built works.

 

Courtauld Institute Illustration Archives
Oversize: NA5461 .C75.

More searches:

monuments and pictorial works

Renaissance and "pictorial works"

Baroque and "pictorial works"

architect* and photo*

architect* and exhibition*