Renaissance Art

Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani)

Leonardo da Vinci, Oil on wood, 1483-90

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Dr. Janson
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 Women in Portrait Paintings
Side Profile
Three-Quarter Profile

Ginevra de' Benci

A Young Lady of Fashion, Paolo Uccello Leonardo da Vinci
Early 1460s, Oil on wood c. 1474/1478

Portrait painting 15th Century Profile

Search terms: Women in art Italy Three-quarter
Renaissance Artist name Oil painting
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The Magdalene Reading

By Rogier van der Weyden
Before 1438, Oil on mahogany

Saints in art Mary Magdalene Northern Renaissance

Iconography Jar or Ointment Netherlandish

Search terms:
Symbolism Altarpiece Rogier van der Weyden
 Selected Books
Italian Renaissance:
• Thames & Hudson Dictionary of the Italian Renaissance
REF DG 445 .T43 1995

• Encyclopedia of the Renaissance REF CB 361 .E52 1999

• History of Italian Renaissance Art REF N6915 . H37 2003

• The Art of the Italian Renaissance REF N 6915 .A735 1995b
• Renaissance Artists & Antique Sculpture REF NB 85 .B63 1991   
• The Art of Italy in the Royal Collection REF ND611 .W44 2007    
• The Fifteenth Century Italian Paintings REF  ND 615 .G67 2003 
 More Selected Books
Northern Renaissance:
• Bruegel to Rembrandt… REF NC 261 .R649 2002
• Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, Graphic
Arts… REF N6370 .S6 2005
• Early Netherlandish Painting REF ND 635 .F681

• Robert Campin: A Monographic Study with Critical

Catalogue REF ND 673 .C274 T45 2002
• Rogier van der Weyden: The Complete Works
REF ND 673 .W4 A4 1999

• Jan van Eyck: The Play of Realism REF ND 673 .E9 H37 1995

• Early Netherlandish Paintings NetLibrary E-Book

• Albrecht Dürer: A Guide to Research NetLibrary E-Book
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*Known by 1st name →
Michelangelo Buonarroti OR Leonardo, da Vinci
Related topics: Iconography Christian art and symbolism
Christian Saints in Art Art Patronage
Religious Art Art and society
 Suggested Journals
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Art Journal Renaissance News (JSTOR)
Print & Online Renaissance Quarterly (JSTOR)

Renaissance Studies Studies in the Renaissance (JSTOR)

Speculum Sixteenth Century Journal (JSTOR)

Journal of the Warburg & Journal of Medieval & Early

Courtauld Institutes Modern Studies (Project Muse)

Artibus et Historiae Sixteenth Century Journal (Art

Fulltext)
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See writing guides for art history:
• Writing the Art History Paper (Dartmouth College)
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~writing/materials/student/humaniti
es/arthistory.shtml

• Art History Writing Guide (Wesleyan University)

http://www.wesleyan.edu/writing/workshop/departments/arha.h
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