Books & Media
		Books | Media Titles preceded by an asterisk (*) may be purchased through The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop. Titles preceded by a plus sign (+) are available for reference in the Elizabeth Stone Robson Teacher Resource Center.   Books for Adults Surveys Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2nd edition. Dunkerton, Jill, Susan Foister, Dillian Gordon, and Nicholas Penny. Dürer to Veronese: Sixteenth-Century Painting in the National Gallery. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. Goffen, Rona. Renaissance Rivals. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. +Hale, J.R., ed. Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance. London: Thames and Hudson, c.1999. Hartt, Frederick. Italian Renaissance Art. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994. *+Karcheski, Walter J., Jr. Arms and Armor in The Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1995. *Kiers, Judijke, and Fieke Tissink. The Golden Age of Dutch Art: Painting, Sculpture, Decorative Art. London: Thames and Hudson, 2000. Ladis, Andrew, and Carolyn Wood. The Craft of Art: Originality and Industry in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque Workshop. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1995. Levenson, Jay A. Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1991. Levey, Michael. Early Renaissance (Style and Civilization Series). New York: Penguin, USA, 1987. ––. High Renaissance (Style and Civilization series). New York: Penguin, USA, 1991. +Lloyd, Christopher, Margherita Andreotti, Larry J. Feinberg, and Martha Wolff. Italian Paintings before 1600 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1993. Martin, John Rupert. Baroque. New York: Harper and Row, 1977. *Snyder, James. Northern Renaissance Art: Painting, Sculpture, the Graphic Arts from 1350–1575. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985. Sutton, Peter C. Age of Rubens. Boston: The Museum of Fine Arts, in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., c. 1993. ––. Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting: Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with the University of Pennsylvania Press, 1984. ––. Masters of 17th-Century Dutch Landscape Painting. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1989. *Tomlison, Janis. From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain 1561–1828. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. *Westerman, Mariët. A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585–1718 (Perspectives series). New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996. +Wise, Susan and Malcolm Warner, with Larry J. Feinberg and Martha Wolff. French and British Paintings from 1600 to 1800 in The Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Collection. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1996.   Artists Belkin, Kristin Lohse. Rubens (Art and Ideas series). London: Phaidon Press Limited, 1998. Brown, Christopher, Jan Kelch, and Pieter van Thiel. Rembrandt: The Master and His Workshop: Painting. New Haven: Yale University Press, c. 1991. Brown, Jonathan. Zurbarán (Masters of Art series). New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1991. Chapman, H. Perry. Rembrandt’s Self-Portraits. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990. Chapman, H. Perry, Wouter Th. Kloek, and Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr. Jan Steen, Painter and Storyteller. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art. Distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven, 1996. Eskerdjian, David. Correggio. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Koslow, Susan. Frans Snyders: The Noble Estate: Seventeenth-Century Still-Life and Animal Painting in the Southern Netherlands. Antwerp: Fonds Mercator, 1995. Mann, Richard G. El Greco and His Patrons: Three Major Projects. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Martin, Thomas. Alessandro Vittoria and the Portrait Bust in Renaissance Venice (Clarendon Studies in History of Art). New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. McTighe, Sheila. Nicolas Poussin’s Landscape Allegories. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Spear, Richard E. The Divine Guido: Religion, Sex, Money, and Art in the World of Guido Reni. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. *Stepanov, Alexander. Lucas Cranach the Elder: 1472–1553. Bournemouth, England: Parkstone, 1997. Walford, E. John. Jacob van Ruisdael and the Perception of Landscape. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991.   Books for Children Bonafoux, Pascal. A Weekend with Rembrandt. New York: Rizzoli, 1992. *O’Reilly, Wenda, et. al. Renaissance Art Game. Palo Alto, Calif.: Birdcage Books, 2000. (book and gameboard) *+Cole, Alison. Renaissance (Eyewitness series). New York: DK Publishing, 2000. +Gravett, Christopher. Knight (Eyewitness series). New York: DK Publishing, 2000. *Hodges, Margaret. Saint. George & the Dragon. Illustrations by Trina Schart Hyman. Boston: Little, Brown & Company, 1984. *Mühlberger, Richard. What Makes a Rembrandt a Rembrandt? New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and Viking, 1993. Ripley, Elizabeth. Botticelli. New York: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1960. Ripley, Elizabeth. Rubens. New York: Oxford University Press, 1957. Schwartz, Gary. First Impressions: Rembrandt. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1992. *Venezia, Mike. Rembrandt (Getting to Know The World's Greatest Artists). Chicago: Children’s Press, 1994. *Venezia, Mike. Botticelli (Getting to Know The World's Greatest Artists). Chicago: Children’s Press, 1994. *Venezia, Mike. El Greco (Getting to Know The World's Greatest Artists). Chicago: Children’s Press, 1999.   Media Videos *Rembrandt: Fathers & Sons. 52 min. Steeplechase Entertainment, 2001. *Rembrandt by Himself. 27 min. National Gallery of Art, 1999. *Vision on Art: Pieter Paul Rubens. 101 min. Home Vision Arts, 1992. Sister Wendy’s Story of Painting: The Renaissance. 60 min. BBC Video, 1996. *Painting the World. 120 min. BBC/National Gallery of Art. Distributed by Home Vision Arts. 1999. (European history, from the late Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, through masterpieces at the National Gallery of Art.) Masters of Illusion. 30 minutes. National Gallery of Art and Home Vision Entertainment, 1991. Survey of artistic and scientific developments in the Renaissance. *Feast of the Gods. 27 min. National Gallery of Art and Home Vision Entertainment, 1990. (X-ray, computer graphic, infrared photography investigation of Titian’s painting.) Links National Gallery Painting Collection Tour http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/#painting Online gallerywalks of Renaissance and Baroque art from the Netherlands to Spain. Available as .pdf files. WebMuseum, Paris: Famous Paintings Exhibition http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/ Brief and well-illustrated introduction to art of the Italian Renaissance, Northern Renaissance, and Baroque periods. Art History Resources on the Web http://witcombe.sbc.edu Illustrated online survey of art history, including the Renaissance and Baroque periods, maintained by Chris Witcombe, professor of art history at Sweet Briar College, Virginia. The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy http://www.idbsu.edu:80/courses/hy309/docs/burckhardt/burckhardt.html The Swiss historian Jacob Burckhardt’s 1860 introduction to Italian Renaissance history and culture, still a vital reference for students and scholars of the period. The Renaissance as a Time Period http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSRenaissanceUnitOutline8.htm From Lesson Plans Page.com, a set of interdisciplinary lessons on Renaissance history and culture for 8th grade students. One lesson asks students to select a guild and create an autobiography of a person working and living during the period. From Van Eyck to Bruegel http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/Vaneyck/VAN_EYCK.HTM Web site for the 1999 exhibition of early Netherlandish painting organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Rogier van der Weyden, Saint George and the Dragon, 1432–35 http://www.nga.gov/kids/rogier/rogier1.htm "NGA Kids" Web site created by the National Gallery of Art that guides children through van der Weyden’s portrayal of the brave Saint George’s defeat of a princess-eating dragon. Rembrandt van Rijn: Abraham Entertaining the Angels www.nga.gov/feature/artnation/rembrandt/index.htm Tour of a Rembrandt etching in the National Gallery of Art collection, with an explanation of the story, biography of the artist, and discussion of Rembrandt’s printmaking techniques. The Rembrandt House Museum: Rembrandt http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/ Online tour of the home in which Rembrandt created art, presented by the Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam. Rembrandt http://parallel.park.org/Netherlands/pavilions/culture/rembrandt/ Site exploring Rembrandt’s style, the science of his painting techiques, with video commentary on major works, and an introduction to the Rembrandt Research Project, a scholarly project to authenticate works attributed to Rembrandt. Restoring a Masterwork http://www.artsmia.org/restoring-a-masterwork/ Minneapolis Institute of Arts site documenting the 1999 restoration of Italian Baroque painter Giovanni Bendetto Castiglione’s The Immaculate Conception with Saints Francis of Assisi and Anthony of Padua. Includes x-ray images of the painting and a daily log of conservators’ work, which took place before the public in the museum’s galleries. Investigating the Renaissance http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/Renaissance/iframes.html. This Web site documents infrared reflectography, x-radiology, and ultraviolet light examinations of three Northern Renaissance paintings in the Fogg Museum at Harvard University. The Art of Chivalry http://www.humanities-interactive.org/a_base.html. A comprehensive Web site that discusses the history and significance of arms and armor to a knight in the Middle Ages. This site includes an interactive game for kids. The European Voyages of Exploration http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/eurvoya/ Site examining the exploration of Africa, Asia, and the Americas by Spain and Portugal in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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