Research Strategy & Background - Art of the Italian Renaissance - ARTH 232 - Borja - Marshall Brooks Library at Principia College

Bernini, Gian Lorenzo, 1598-1680. Apollo and Daphne: Det.: Total View. 1622-24. Marble, h. 243 cm. Galleria Borghese. https://jstor.org/stable/community.13562857.

Suggested Research Strategy

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- Find background material on your artists or the time period
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Caravaggio
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Gian Bernini
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Artemisia Gentileschi
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Sample Reference Titles

Arts and Humanities Through the Eras by Edward Bleiberg
Call Number: NX440 .A787 2005 v.4
ISBN: 9780787656959
Publication Date: 2004
Volume 4 covers the Renaissance period. The sections on Architecture and Visual Arts may be helpful.
Atlas of World Art by John Onians (Editor)
Call Number: REF G1046.E1 O9 2004
ISBN: 9780195215830
Publication Date: 2004
Pages 120-123 give a concise overview of 1300-1500 Italy.
A Short Guide to Writing about Art by Barnet
Call Number: CITE SITE N7476 .B37 2015
ISBN: 9780205886999
Publication Date: 2014
Writing about art -- Writing about art : the big picture -- Formal analysis and style -- Analytic thinking -- Writing a comparison -- Writing an entry in an exhibition catalog -- Writing a review of an exhibition -- Virtual exhibitions : writing text panels and other materials -- How to write an effective essay -- Style in writing -- Art-historical research -- Some critical approaches -- Writing a research paper -- Manuscript form -- Writing essay examinations
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
Call Number: CB361 .E52 1999
ISBN: 0684805146
Publication Date: 1999
Artists of the Renaissance
Call Number: REF N6915 .E17 2004
ISBN: 9780313319372
Publication Date: 2004
Table of Contents: Leon Battista Alberti, 1404-1472 -- Filippo Brunelleschi, 1377-1446 -- Donatello (Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi), 1386-1466 -- Fra,Filippo di Tommaso Lippi, c. 1406-1469 -- Giotto di Bondone, c. 1266/7-1337 -- Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519
Andrea Mantegna, c. 1431-1506 -- Masaccio, 1401-1428 -- Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564 -- Raphael (Raffaello Santi or Sanzio), 1483-1520
Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art by Zirpolo
ISBN: 9781442264663
Publication Date: 2016
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of Renaissance Art contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on artists from Italy, Flanders, the Netherlands, Germany, Spain, and Portugal, historical figures and events that impacted the production of Renaissance art.