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Visual Arts

A library help guide to Visual Arts resources at UVic Libraries.

Key Books

Art in Renaissance Italy
N6915 P29 2005
History of Italian Renaissance art : painting, sculpture, architecture
N6915 H37
Northern Renaissance
N6370 S58
Northern Renaissance art : painting, sculpture, the graphic arts from 1350 to 1575
N6370 S6

Iconography

Attributs et symboles dans l'art profane, 1450-1600; dictionnaire d'un langage perdu. by Tervarent, Guy de.
Publication Date: 1958-9
Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art by James Hall
Call Number: N7825 H35 2008

ISBN: 9780813343938

Publication Date: 2014-03-01

Ebook available
Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art by Helene E. Roberts (Editor)
Publication Date: 2013

Ebook available
Renaissance Artists and Antique Sculpture by Phyllis Bober; Ruth Rubinstein
Call Number: NB85 B63 2010

ISBN: 9781905375608

Publication Date: 2011-03-23
Saints and Their Symbols : recognizing saints in art and in popular images by Fernando Lanzi; Gioia Lanzi; Matthew J. O'Connell (Translator)
Call Number: BX4655.3 L3613 2004

ISBN: 0814629709

Publication Date: 2005-03-01
Studies in iconology : humanistic themes in the art of the Renaissance by Erwin Panofsky
Call Number: N6370 P3 1972

Publication Date: 1972

eBook available

Primary Sources

A Documentary History of Art by Elizabeth G. Holt (Editor)
ISBN: 0385093667

Publication Date: 1986-01-01
French Painters and Paintings from the Fourteenth Century to Post-Impressionism by Gerd Muehsam (Editor)
ISBN: 0804432104

Publication Date: 1970-04-01
Italian Art, 1400-1500 by C. H. Gilbert
ISBN: 0135079470

Publication Date: 1979-09-01
Italian art, 1500-1600 : sources and documents by Henri Zerner; Robert Klein
Italy and Spain, 1600-1750 : sources and documents by Robert Engass; Jonathan Brown
Publication Date: 1970
Lives of the most eminent painters by Giorgio Vasari
Call Number: N6922 V477

Publication Date: 1966
Northern Renaissance art, 1400-1600 : sources and documents by Wolfgang Stechow
Publication Date: 1966
A Renaissance treasury : a collection of representative writings of the Renaissance on the continent of Europe by Hiram Haydn
Publication Date: 1953

Dictionaries/Encyclopedias

Encyclopedia of Italian Renaissance & Mannerist art
Ref N6915 E53
Encyclopedia of the Renaissance
REF CB361 E52
Oxford Art Online
Formerly Grove Art, this comprehensive online resource covers all aspects of the visual arts, from prehistory to the 1990s. Provides links to 41000 articles on the art and culture of Asia, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and the Pacific, with additional links to images and further information on musuem and other art-related websites.
Renaissance art : a topical dictionary
Ref N6370 E27

Biographies

Lives of the artists
N6922 V2213 1987

Bibliographies

Bibliographie internationale de l’humanisme et de la renaissance
Z6207 R4B5
(basement compact shelving)
Fifteenth-century North Italian painting and drawing : an annotated bibliography
REF N6915 Z9R67
Leonardo da Vinci’s Trattato della pittura (Treatise on painting) : a bibliography of the printed editions, 1651-1956
Z8502 S82
Michelangelo, selected scholarship in English
N6923 B9M553
Michelangelo-Bibliographie, 1927-1970
Ref Z8572 D8
Renaissance humanism, 1300-1550 : a bibliography of materials in English
REF B778 Z9K64
Shakespeare’s world : Renaissance intellectual contexts : a selective, annotated guide, 1966-1971
PR2894 Z9E47 1979

E-books

E-book collections in UVic Libraries

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