Representing the Renaissance (Annotated Bibliography)
Dana Wheeles
University of Virginia
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Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna Carried In Procession Through the Streets of Florence, 1853 - 1855
Currently on view at the Leighton House Museum
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The Victorians were fascinated by the Italian Renaissance: its art, its culture and its personalities. This ongoing exhibit is meant to showcase valuable resources in NINES concerned with the Victorian historiography of the period. It will be updated as objects are added to NINES. |
Agincourt, J. -B.L. G. Seroux d'. Histoire de l'art par les monuments depuis sa decadence au IVeme siecle jusqu'a son renouvellement au XVIeme. Paris, 1823.
Appolinaire, Guillaume. La Rome des Borgia, Paris, Bibliotheque des curieux, 1913.
Barringer, Tim and Elizabeth Prettejohn (eds.). Frederic Leighton: Antiquity, Renaissance, Modernity. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1999.
Barolsky, Paul. "Pater's Noble Vision," The Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies III, no. 2 (May 1983): 9-18.
___. Walter Pater's Renaissance. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987.
___. Walter Pater's Renaissance. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987.
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Link to Commentary on Bonnard's Podestat" (plate 7)
The Rossetti Archive
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Bonnard, Camille. Costumes Historique des Quatorzieme et Quinziemes Siecles.
Complete with engravings by Paul Mercuri, this collection of images from various frescoes, altarpieces and paintings of the Quattrocento was an essential resources for history painters of the nineteenth century. For more on this book and its use in Rossetti's art, see Gail Weinberg's “Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ‘Salutation of Beatrice’ and Camille Bonnard's ‘Costumes Historiques’,” and Eriko Yamaguchi's "Rossetti's Use of Bonnard's Costumes Historiques". |
Browning, Robert. Men and Women. 1851.
As David deLaura has shown in his article on "The Context of Browning's Painter Poems," Browning's "Fra Filippo Lippi," "My Last Duchess" and "Pictor Ignotus" are firmly grounded in nineteenth-century perspectives on the Renaissance.
As David deLaura has shown in his article on "The Context of Browning's Painter Poems," Browning's "Fra Filippo Lippi," "My Last Duchess" and "Pictor Ignotus" are firmly grounded in nineteenth-century perspectives on the Renaissance.
Burckhardt, Jacob. The civilization of the renaissance in Italy. 1860; Translated from the German by S.G.C. Middlemore. Harper, 1878.
Burckhardt's foundational study of Alberti and the Renaissance spirit of independence was not translated into English until the 1870s, and was therefore limited in distribution early in the century. It has since become a valuable resource - if not for its pedagogical usefulness in the 21st century classroom, then certainly for the insights it provides into nineteenth-century attitudes toward the past.
Burckhardt's foundational study of Alberti and the Renaissance spirit of independence was not translated into English until the 1870s, and was therefore limited in distribution early in the century. It has since become a valuable resource - if not for its pedagogical usefulness in the 21st century classroom, then certainly for the insights it provides into nineteenth-century attitudes toward the past.
Bullen, J.B. The Myth of the Renaissance in Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. (Citation, Victorian Studies Bibliography)
Along with Hilary Fraser's The Victorians And Renaissance Italy (1992), Bullen's historiography is an essential guide to the representation of fifteenth-century art and culture in the nineteenth century. Especially useful is the focus on French writers such as Seroux d'Agincourt and Jules Michelet in the context of Revolutionary unease.
Along with Hilary Fraser's The Victorians And Renaissance Italy (1992), Bullen's historiography is an essential guide to the representation of fifteenth-century art and culture in the nineteenth century. Especially useful is the focus on French writers such as Seroux d'Agincourt and Jules Michelet in the context of Revolutionary unease.
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