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Art History 231 - Leonardo Da Vinci Seminar

Leonardo da Vinci is often regarded as the Renaissance epitome of the "universal man." This seminar will help students reach a deeper understanding of Leonardo's achievements and working methods as an artist, architect, anatomist and engineer

Primary Sources

The Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari (Translator); Julia Conway Bondanella (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator); Peter Bondanella (Introduction by, Notes by, Translator)
Call Number: N 6922 .V2213 1998
ISBN: 9780192834102
Publication Date: 1998-07-16
Venice and Vitruvius by Margaret Muther D'Evelyn
Call Number: NA 1121 .V4 D48 2012
ISBN: 9780300174519
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
Civilization of the Italian Renaissance by Kenneth Bartlett
Call Number: DG 445 .C57 2011
ISBN: 9781442604858
Publication Date: 2011-06-30
The Italian Renaissance by Kenneth Gouwens (Editor)
Call Number: DG 445 .I79 2004
ISBN: 0631231641
Publication Date: 2003-07-09
Love and Death in Renaissance Italy by Thomas V. Cohen
Call Number: DG 445 .C64 2004
ISBN: 0226112586
Publication Date: 2004-11-01
Behind the Picture by Martin Kemp
Call Number: N 6915 .K46 1997
ISBN: 0300071957
Publication Date: 1997-12-22

More Primary Sources

Renaissance Art Reconsidered by Michael W. Franklin (Editor); Kim W. Woods (Editor); Carol M. Richardson (Editor)
Call Number: N 6370 .R375 2007
ISBN: 9781405146401
Publication Date: 2007-02-12
A Documentary History of Art by Elizabeth G. Holt
Call Number: N 5303 .D6 1981
ISBN: 0691003335
Publication Date: 1982-03-01
Fashion by Peter McNeil (Editor)
Call Number: GT 580 .F37 2009
ISBN: 1847882927
Publication Date: 2009-03-15
Venice by David Charters; Brian Pullan (Editor); David Chambers (Editor)
Call Number: DG 677.85 .V35 2001
ISBN: 9780802084248
Publication Date: 2001-03-30
Italian Art, 1400-1500 by C. H. Gilbert
Call Number: N6915 I78
ISBN: 0135079470
Publication Date: 1979-09-01
A documentary history of art.
Call Number: N 5303 H762 1957
Letters by Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1475-1564.
Call Number: N6923 B9 A23
Literary sources of art history; an anthology of texts from Theophilus to Goethe.
Call Number: N5303 H763
Northern Renaissance art, 1400-1600; sources and documents.
Call Number: N 6370 S8