From the nineteenth-century Germanic tradition, the history of Renaissance architecture has primarily been a history of Italian buildings and their architects. And still today, the majority of new scholarship is on central Italy. Therefore, the literature on those places and people is larger and growing. To understand the reasons behind this one must look both to the priority given to the history of classicism as well as the institutional structure of European and North American universities where this material is studied and taught. A good introduction to this topic is by Tod Marder in his article ‘Renaissance and Baroque Architectural History in the United States’, in E. B. MacDougall, ed., The Architectural Historian in America, National Gallery of Art, Studies in the History of Art 35 (Washington, DC, 1990), 161–74.
Two ongoing projects approach Renaissance architecture as a European phenomenon. Since 1983, André Chastel and Jean Guillaume began the publication of essays and monographic studies in the series De architectura, produced by Picard in Paris. More recently, Krista De Jonge and Piet Lombaerde have edited the series Architectura moderna: Architectural Exchanges in Europe, 16th–17th Centuries, published by Brepols in Turnhout (Belgium). These essays, and the conferences out of which they are gathered, have reshaped the study of Renaissance architecture and encouraged more studies with a broader geographical scope.
In addition to the book-length study, specialized articles are an important source for further information. The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (USA) publishes articles on all areas of architectural history, including the Renaissance, as does Architectural History, the journal of the Society of Architectural History of Great Britain.
The Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura di Andrea Palladio, based in Vicenza, Italy, the centre of Palladio’s building activities, produces many exhibitions and books on Renaissance architecture, on Palladio as well as many other architects of the early modern period. They also publish Annali di architettura, a yearly journal on architecture in early modern Europe.
Grove Art Online, a comprehensive encyclopedia and available through Oxford Art Online, is an excellent starting point for further information on specific architects and buildings.
The list of titles below includes works primarily in English that I have found essential in writing this book, in addition to the references cited in the footnotes. Foreign-language books are included when there is nothing comparable and more recent in English, or it is too essential to ignore for its references, primary documents, or images.
Aston, Margaret, ed., The Panorama of the Renaissance (New York, 1996). Excellent images, organized by topics.
Barkan, Leonard, Unearthing the Past: Archaeology and Aesthetics in the Making of Renaissance Culture (New Haven, 1999).
Brown, Alison, The Renaissance (London, 1999).
Burckhardt, Jacob, The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (New York, 1958).
Burke, Peter, The European Renaissance: Centres and Peripheries (Oxford, 1998).
——The Renaissance Sense of the Past (London, 1969).
Chartier, Roger, ed., A History of Private Life, iii: Passions of the Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass., 1989).
Findlen, Paula, ed., The Italian Renaissance (Oxford, 2002).
Grendler, Paul F., ed., Encyclopedia of the Renaissance, 6 vols. (New York, 1999). An essential resource.
Hale, John, The Civilization of Europe in the Renaissance (London, 1993).
——A Concise Encyclopedia of the Italian Renaissance (New York, 1981).
Huizinga, Johan, The Waning of the Middle Ages: A Study of the Forms of Life, Thought, and Art in France and the Netherlands in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (London, 1924).
Jardine, Lisa, Worldly Goods: A New History of the Renaissance (New York, 1996).
Lestringant, Frank, Mapping the Renaissance World: The Geographical Imagination in the Age of Discovery (Cambridge, 1994).
Muir, Edward, Ritual in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 1997).
Porter, Roy, and Teich, Mikuláš, eds., The Renaissance in National Context (Cambridge, 1992).
Richie, Robert, Historical Atlas of the Renaissance (New York, 2004).
Rublack, Ulrika, Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (Oxford, 2011).
Ruggiero, Guido, ed., A Companion to the Worlds of the Renaissance (Malden, Mass., 2007).
Drawing on the knowledge of conservators and curators who know the buildings from the ground up, guidebooks are invaluable resources to specific buildings and local traditions. Often only available on site or through the local historical commission, these books offer the most up-to-date information. For English architecture, for example, the books published by English Heritage and the National Trust of buildings under their care often include essays by leading scholars, excellent photographs, an inventory of objects, genealogies of the owners, excerpts from archival documents, and a bibliography. The following have been especially relevant for this book.
Favière, Jean, L’Hôtel de Jacques Cœur à Bourges (Paris, 1992).
Girouard, Mark, Hardwick Hall (London, 1989).
Mikkelsen, Birger, Kronborg (Helsingør, 1997).
Pedrosa Dos Santos Graça, Luís Maria, Convento de Cristo (Lisbon, 1994).
Pereira, Paulo, Jerónimos Abbey of Santa Maria (London, 2002).
There is a list of treatises, their editions, and translations in Hanno-Walter Kruft, A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present (Princeton, 1994).
A few are listed below.
Alberti, Leon Battista, On the Art of Building in Ten Books, trans. Joseph Rykwert, Neil Leach, and Robert Tavernor (Cambridge, Mass., 1988).
Colonna, Francesco, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream, trans. Joscelyn Godwin (1499; London, 1999).
Dee, John, ‘Mathematical Preface’, in Elements of Geometrie, by Euclid and trans. Henry Billingsley (London, 1570).
Dürer, Albrecht, The Writings of Albrecht Dürer, trans. and ed. William Martin Conway (New York, 1958). Contains selections from Dürer’s writings on proportion and fortifications.
Filarete, Antonio, Treatise on Architecture, ed. J. R. Spencer (London, 1964).
Palladio, Andrea, The Four Books on Architecture, trans. Robert Tavernor and Richard Schofield (1570; Cambridge, Mass., 1997).
Scamozzi, Vincenzo, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Venetian Architect: The Idea of a Universal Architecture. Book III, Villas and Country Estates, ed. K. Ottenheym, trans.
P. B. Garvin, M. J. Obbink, and H. J. Scheepmaker (1615; Amsterdam, 2003).
——Vincenzo Scamozzi, Venetian Architect: The Idea of a Universal Architecture. Book VI, The Architectural Orders and their Application, ed K. Ottenheym, trans. Patti Garvin (1615; Amsterdam, 2008).
Serlio, Sebastiano, Sebastiano Serlio on Architecture, trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks, 2 vols. (New Haven, 1996–2001).
——Serlio on Domestic Architecture, ed. Myra Nan Rosenfeld (New York, 1978).
Shute, John, The First and Chief Groundes of Architecture (1563; London, 1972).
Vitruvius, Ten Books on Architecture, trans. Ingrid D. Rowland (New York, 1999).
The following books include buildings from across Europe.
Beltramini, Guido, Burns, Howard, Forster, Kurt W., Oechslin, Werner, and Thoenes, Christof, eds., Palladio and Northern Europe: Books, Travellers, Architects (Milan, 1999).
Benevolo, Leonardo, The Architecture of the Renaissance, trans. J. Landry, 2 vols. (Boulder, Colo., 1978).
Burckhardt, Jacob, The Architecture of the Renaissance, ed. P. Murray (London, 1985).
Busch, Harald, and Lohse, Bernd, eds., Buildings of Europe: Renaissance Europe (London, 1961).
Markschies, Alexander, Icons of Renaissance Architecture (Munich, 2003).
Millar, John Fitzhugh, Classical Architecture in Renaissance Europe 1419–1585 (Williamsburg, Va., 1987). Book of drawings of buildings across Europe.
Murray, Peter, Renaissance Architecture, History of World Architecture (Milan, 1978).
Pauwels-Lemerle, Frédérique, and Pauwels-Lemerle, Yves, L’Architecture à la Renaissance (Paris, 1998). A broad survey, with up-to-date text and excellent photographs. Only available in French.
Swaan, Wim, The Late Middle Ages: Art and Architecture from 1350 to the Advent of the Renaissance (Ithaca, NY, 1977).
Tafuri, Manfredo, L’architettura dell’umanesimo (Bari, 1969). An important study, to date only available in Italian and French translations.
——Interpreting the City, Princes, Cities, Architects, trans. Daniel Sherer (New Haven, 2006).
Thomson, David, Renaissance Architecture: Critics, Patrons, Luxury (Manchester, 1993).
Anderson, Christy, ‘Learning to Read Architecture in the English Renaissance’, in Lucy Gent, ed., Albion’s Classicism: The Visual Arts in Britain, 1550–1660 (New Haven, 1995), 239–86.
Brunskill, R. W., Brick Building in England (London, 1990).
Clifton-Taylor, Alec, The Pattern of English Building (London, 1962).
Fawcett, Richard, The Architectural History of Scotland: Scottish Architecture from the Accession of the Stewarts to the Reformation, 1371–1560 (Edinburgh, 1994).
Friedman, Alice T., ‘Did England Have a Renaissance? Classical and Anticlassical Themes in Elizabethan Culture’, in Cultural Differentiation and Cultural Identity in the Visual Arts, Studies in the History of Art 27 (Washington, DC, 1989).
Girouard, Mark, Elizabethan Architecture: Its Rise and Fall, 1540–1640 (New Haven, 2009).
Howard, Maurice, The Building of Elizabethan and Jacobean England (New Haven, 2007).
Salzman, L. F., Building in England down to 1540 (Oxford, 1967).
Summerson, John, Architecture in Britain, 1530–1830 (New Haven, 1993).
Wells-Cole, Anthony, Art and Decoration in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Influence of Continental Prints, 1558–1625 (New Haven, 1997).
Croatia: Aspects of Art, Architecture and Cultural Heritage (London, 2009). Essays by Marcus Binney, Timothy Clifford, Donal Cooper, and David Ekserdijan discuss aspects of Renaissance architecture in Croatia.
Supičić, Ivan, ed., Croatia in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance: A Cultural Survey (London, 2008). An extensive survey of all aspects of Croatian culture in the Renaissance, with excellent photos and essays.
Blunt, Anthony, Art and Architecture in France 1500–1700 (New Haven, 1993).
—— Philibert de l’Orme (London, 1958). Pauwels, Yves, ‘The Rhetorical Model in the Formation of French Architectural Language in the Sixteenth-Century: The Triumphal Arch as Commonplace’, in Georgia Clarke and Paul Crossley, eds., Architecture and Language: Constructing Identity in European Architecture c.1000–c.1650 (Cambridge, 2000), 134–47.
Perouse de Montclos, Jean-Marie, Histoire de l’architecture française: de la Renaissance à la Révolution (Paris, 2006).
—— Philibert de l’Orme: architecte du roi, 1514–1570 (Paris, 2000).
Zerner, Henri, Renaissance Art in France: The Invention of Classicism (Paris, 2003).
Białostocki, Jan, The Art of the Renaissance in Eastern Europe, Hungary, Bohemia, Poland (Ithaca, NY, 1976).
Feuer-Tóth, Rózsa, Renaissance Architecture in Hungary (Budapest, 1977).
Fučiková, Eliška, et al., Rudolf II and Prague: The Court and the City (London, 1997).
Günther, Hubertus, Deutsche Architekturtheorie zwischen Gotik und Renaissance (Darmstadt, 1988).
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, German Renaissance Architecture (Princeton, 1981). Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta, Court, Cloister & City: The Art and Culture of Central Europe 1450–1800 (Chicago, 1995).
Knox, Brian, The Architecture of Poland (New York, 1981).
—— The Architecture of Prague and Bohemia (London, 1962).
Matthew Corvinus, the King: Tradition and Renewal in the Hungarian Court 1458–1490, exh. cat. (Budapest, 2008).
Ullmann, Ernst, Renaissance Deutsche Baukunst 1520–1620 (Leipzig, 1995).
The revised editions of Ludwig H. Heydenreich’s Architecture in Italy, 1400–1500 and Wolfgang Lotz’s Architecture in Italy, 1500–1600 contain up-to-date bibliographies by Paul Davies and Deborah Howard, respectively. Some of the most important books, including some that have appeared since, are included here.
Ackerman, James, ‘The Planning of Renaissance Rome, 1450–1580’, in P. A. Ramsey, ed., Rome in the Renaissance: The City and the Myth (Binghamton, NY, 1982), 3–18.
Burroughs, Charles, From Signs to Design: Environmental Process and Reform in Early Renaissance Rome (Cambridge, Mass., 1990).
Clarke, Georgia, ‘Architecture, Languages and Style in Fifteenth-Century Italy’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 71 (2008), 169–89.
Concina, Ennio, A History of Venetian Architecture, trans. Judith Landry (New York, 1998).
Frommel, Christoph, The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance, trans. Peter Spring (London, 2007).
Gorse, George L., ‘A Classical Stage for the Old Nobility: The Strada Nuova and Sixteenth-Century Genoa’, Art Bulletin 79 (1997), 301–27.
Goy, Richard, Venice: The City and its Architecture (London, 1997).
Hersey, George L., Alfonso II and the Artistic Renewal of Naples, 1485–1495 (New Haven, 1969).
Heydenreich, Ludwig H., Architecture in Italy, 1400–1500, introd. Paul Davies (New Haven, 1996).
Howard, Deborah, The Architectural History of Venice (New Haven, 2002).
Lieberman, Ralph, Renaissance Architecture in Venice 1450–1540 (New York, 1982).
Lotz, Wolfgang, Architecture in Italy, 1500–1600, introd. Deborah Howard (New Haven, 1995).
—— Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 1977). McAndrew, John, Venetian Architecture of the Early Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass., 1980).
McLean, Alick M., Prato: Architecture, Piety, and Political Identity in a Tuscan City-State (New Haven, 2008).
Magnuson, Torgil, Studies in Roman Quattrocento Architecture (Stockholm, 1958).
Millon, Henry A., and Lampugnani, Vittorio Magnano, The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture (London, 1994).
An important catalogue with comprehensive essays and detailed catalogue entries.
Murray, Peter, Architecture of the Italian Renaissance (New York, 1963).
Nevola, Fabrizio, Siena: Constructing the Renaissance City (New Haven, 2007).
Partner, Peter, Renaissance Rome 1500–1559: A Portrait of a Society (Berkeley, 1979).
Rowe, Colin, and Satkowski, Leon, Italian Architecture of the 16th Century (New York, 2002).
Welch, Evelyn S., Art and Authority in Renaissance Milan (New Haven, 1995).
Westfall, C. W., In this most perfect paradise: Alberti, Nicholas V and the Invention of Conscious Urban Planning in Rome, 1447–1455 (University Park, Pa., 1974).
Choay, Françoise, ‘Alberti: The Invention of Monumentality and Memory’, Harvard Architecture Review 4 (1984), 99–105.
Grafton, Anthony, Leon Battista Alberti: Master Builder of the Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, Mass., 2000).
Johnson, Eugene J., S. Andrea in Mantua: The Building History (University Park, Pa., 1975).
Tavernor, Robert, On Alberti and the Art of Building (New Haven, 1998).
Bruschi, Arnaldo, Bramante (London, 1977).
Hyman, Isabelle, ed., Brunelleschi in Perspective (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1974).
Prager, Frank D., and Scaglia, Gustina, Brunelleschi: Studies of his Technology and Inventions (Cambridge, Mass., 1970).
Saalman, Howard, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings (University Park, Pa., 1993).
Ackerman, James S., The Architecture of Michelangelo (Chicago, 1986).
Elam, Caroline, ‘“Tuscan dispositions”: Michelangelo’s Florentine Architectural Vocabulary and its Reception’, Renaissance Studies 19 (2005), 46–82.
More literature regularly appears on Palladio than any other architect. In 1980 Deborah Howard wrote a review, ‘Four Centuries of Literature on Palladio’ (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 39 (1980), 224–41), that remains an excellent starting point for any student of his architecture, writings, and reception. The Centro Internazionale di Studi di Architettura di Andrea Palladio in Vicenza (<www.cisapalladio.org>) publishes studies of Palladio and offers an excellent resource to his architecture on their website.
Ackerman, James S., Palladio (Harmondsworth, 1966).
Beltramini, Guido, and Burns, Howard, eds., Palladio (London, 2008).
Boucher, Bruce, Andrea Palladio: The Architect in his Time (New York, 1998). Burns, Howard, with Lynda Fairbairn and Bruce Boucher, Andrea Palladio 1508–1580: The Portico and the Farmyard, exh. cat. (London, 1975).
Cooper, Tracy E., Palladio’s Venice (New Haven, 2005).
Mitrović, Branko, Learning from Palladio (New York, 2004).
Travernor, Robert, Palladio and Palladianism (London, 1991).
Howard, Deborah, Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice (New Haven, 1975).
Tafuri, Manfredo, Jacopo Sansovino e l’architettura del’ 500 a Venezia (Padua, 1969).
Belozerskaya, Marina, Rethinking the Renaissance: Burgundian Arts across Europe (Cambridge, 2012).
De Jonge, Krista, and Ottenheym, Konrad, eds., Unity and Discontinuity: Architectural Relationships between the Southern and Northern Low Countries (1530–1700) (Turnhout, 2007).
Hitchcock, Henry-Russell, Netherlands Scrolled Gables of the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (New York, 1978).
Kuyper, W., The Triumphant Entry of Renaissance Architecture into the Netherlands, 2 vols. (Leiden, 1994).
Blair, Sheila S., and Bloom, Jonathan M., The Art and Architecture of Islam, 1250–1800 (New Haven, 1996).
Goodwin, Godfrey, A History of Ottoman Architecture (Baltimore, 1971).
Necipoğlu, Gülru, The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire (Princeton, 2005).
—— ed., Sinan’s Autobiographies: Five Sixteenth-Century Texts, trans. Howard Crane and Esra Akin (Leiden, 2006).
Brumfield, William Craft, A History of Russian Architecture (Cambridge, 1993).
Voyce, Arthur, The Moscow Kremlin: Its History, Architecture and Art Treasures (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1954).
Christianson, John Robert, On Tycho’s Island: Tycho Brahe, Science, and Culture in the Sixteenth Century (Cambridge, 2003).
—— ‘Terrestrial and Celestial Spaces of the Danish Court, 1550–1650’, in Marcello Fantoni, George Gorse, and Malcolm Smuts, eds., The Politics of Space: European Courts ca.1500–1700 (Rome, 2009), 91–118.
Det Danske Selskab, The History of Danish Architecture, trans. Frederic R. Stevenson (Copenhagen, 1963).
Donnelly, Marian C., Architecture in the Scandinavian Countries (Cambridge, Mass., 1992).
Kavli, Guthorm, Norwegian Architecture Past and Present (Oslo, 1958).
Kirby, David, Northern Europe in the Early Modern Period: The Baltic World 1492–1772 (London, 1990).
Kodres, Krista, Lindpere, Piret, and Näripea, Eva, eds., The Problem of the Classical Ideal in the Art and Architecture of the Countries around the Baltic Sea. Conference of the Estonian Academy of Arts, 9–10 November 2001 (2003).
Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Nightlands, Nordic Building, trans. Thomas McQuillan (Cambridge, Mass., 1996).
Paulsson, Thomas, Scandinavian Architecture: Buildings and Society in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden from the Iron Age until Today (London, 1958).
Bury, J. B., ‘The Italian Contribution to Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Architecture, Military and Civil’, in K. J. P. Lowe, ed., Cultural Links between Portugal and Italy in the Renaissance (Oxford, 2000), 77–107.
Kamen, Henry, The Escorial: Art and Power in the Renaissance (New Haven, 2010).
Kubler, George, Portuguese Plain Architecture: Between Spices and Diamonds (Middletown, Conn., 1972).
—— and Soria, Martin, Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and their American Dominions 1500–1800 (Harmondsworth, 1959).
Smith, R. C., The Art of Portugal (London, 1968).
Wilkinson-Zerner, Catherine, Juan de Herrera, Architect to Philip II of Spain (New Haven, 1993).
Braudel, Fernand, Out of Italy (Paris, 1974).
Guillaume, Jean, ed., L’Invention de la Renaissance: la réception des formes ‘à l’antique’ au début de la Renaissance, actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 1–4 June (Paris, 2003).
Howard, Deborah, and Moretti, Laura, Sound and Space in Renaissance Venice: Architecture, Music, Acoustics (New Haven, 2009). Part of an emerging interest in architectural experience and the senses. Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta, Toward a Geography of Art (Chicago, 2004).
Panofsky, Erwin, Renaissance and Renascences in Western Art (New York, 1960).
Payne, Alina A., ‘Rudolf Wittkower and Architectural Principles in the Age of Modernism’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 53 (1994), 322–42.
Pérez-Gómez, Alberto, Built upon Love: Architectural Longing after Ethics and Aesthetics (Cambridge, Mass., 2006).
Summerson, John, ‘Antithesis of the Quattrocento’, in his Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays (London, 1949), 29–50.
Tafuri, Manfredo, ‘Discordant Harmony from Alberti to Zuccari’, in Joseph Rykwert, ed., Leonis Baptiste Alberti (AD Profiles 21), Architectural Design 49 (London, 1986).
Wittkower, Rudolf, Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism (New York, 1962).
Travel accounts of visitors in the early modern era offer first-hand descriptions of buildings.
Coryat, Thomas, Coryat’s crudities: hastily gobled up in five moneths travells in France, Savoy, Italy, Rhetia commonly called the Grisons country, Helvetia alias Switzerland, some parts of high Germany and the Netherlands (1611; Glasgow, 1905).
Dallington, Robert, The View of Fraunce, 1604 (London, 1936) and A survey of the great Dukes state of Tuscany, in the yeare of our Lord 1596 (London, 1605).
Montaigne, Michel de, Montaigne’s Travel Journal, trans. Donald M. Frame (San Francisco, 1983).
For more on travel, see:
Chaney, Edward, ‘Quo vadis? Travel as Education and the Impact of Italy in the Sixteenth Century’, in The Evolution of the Grand Tour: Anglo-Italian Cultural Relations since the Renaissance (London, 1998), 58–101.
Kamps, Ivo, and Singh, Jyotsna G., eds., Travel Knowledge: European ‘Discoveries’ in the Early Modern Period (New York, 2001).
On medieval architecture and the continuity of the Gothic:
Chatenet, Monique, et al., eds., Le Gothique de la Renaissance (Paris, 2011). Offers essays on the continuity of Gothic architecture. Coldstream, Nicola, Medieval Architecture (Oxford, 2002).
Kavaler, Ethan Matt, Renaissance Gothic: Architecture and the Arts in Northern Europe, 1470–1540 (New Haven, 2012).
Two recent books explore the issue of time in Renaissance architecture and art:
Nagel, Alexander, and Wood, Christopher S., Anachronic Renaissance (New York, 2010).
Trachtenberg, Marvin, Building-in-time: From Giotto to Alberti and Modern Oblivion (New Haven, 2010).
Ackerman, James, ‘The Gesù in the Light of Contemporary Church Design’, in his Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 1991), 417–51.
Alexander, John, From Renaissance to Counter-Reformation: The Architectural Patronage of Carlo Borromeo during the Reign of Pius IV (Rome, 2007).
Bangs, Jeremy Dupertuis, Church Art and Architecture in the Low Countries before 1566 (Kirksville, Mo., 1997).
Barrie, Thomas, The Sacred In-Between: The Mediating Roles of Architecture (London, 2010).
Buxton, David, The Wooden Churches of Eastern Europe: An Introductory Survey (Cambridge, 1981).
Chatenet, Monique, and Mignot, Claude, eds., L’Architecture religieuse européenne au temps des Réformes: héritage de la Renaissance et nouvelles problématiques, actes des deuxièmes Rencontres d’architecture européenne Château de Maisons-sur-Seine, 8–11 June 2005 (Paris, 2009).
Coster, Will, and Spicer, Andrew, eds., Sacred Space in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2005).
Courtright, Nicola, The Papacy and the Art of Reform in Sixteenth-Century Rome: Gregory XIII’s Tower of the Winds in the Vatican (New York, 2003).
Evans, Robin, ‘Perturbed Circles’, in his The Projective Cast: Architecture and its Three Geometries (Cambridge, Mass., 2000), 3–54.
Fanelli, Giovanni, and Fanelli, Michele, Brunelleschi’s Cupola: Past and Present of an Architectural Masterpiece (Florence, 2004).
Frishman, Martin, and Khan, Hasan-Uddin, The Mosque: History, Architectural Development & Regional Diversity (London, 1994).
Gaimster, D., and Gilchrist, R., eds., The Archaeology of Reformation 1480–1580 (Leeds, 2003).
Gorringe, T. J., A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption (Cambridge, 2002). Although not directly on the Renaissance, an interesting approach to religious spaces. Guillaume, Jean, ed., L’Église dans l’architecture de la Renaissance, actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 31 May 1990 (Paris, 1995).
Hamberg, Per Gustaf, Temples for Protestants: Studies in the Architectural Milieu of the Early Reformed Church and of the Lutheran Church (Gothenburg, 2002).
Jones, Barry, Sereni, Andrea, and Ricci, Massimo, ‘Building Brunelleschi’s Dome: A Practical Methodology Verified by Experiment’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 69 (2010), 39–61.
Kaplan, Benjamin J., ‘Fictions of Privacy: House Chapels and the Spatial Accommodation of Religious Dissent in Early Modern Europe’, American Historical Review 107 (2002), 1031–64.
Koerner, Joseph Leo, The Reformation of the Image (Chicago, 2004).
Krinsky, Carol Herselle, Synagogues of Europe: Architecture, History, Meaning (New York, 1985).
Meek, H. A., The Synagogue (London, 1995).
Nussbaum, Norbert, German Gothic Church Architecture, trans. Scott Kleager (New Haven, 2000).
Randall, Catherine, Building Codes: The Aesthetics of Calvinism in Early Modern Europe (Philadelphia, 1999).
S. Sinding-Larsen. ‘Some Functional and Iconographical Aspects of the Centralized Church of the Italian Renaissance’, Acta ad arte et architecturam pertinentum (Norvegiae) 2 (1965), 203–52.
Smith, E. Baldwin, The Dome: A Study in the History of Ideas (Princeton, 1971).
Spicer, Andrew, ed., Lutheran Churches in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot, 2012).
Yates, Nigel, Liturgical Space: Christian Worship and Church Buildings in Western Europe 1500–2000 (Aldershot, 2008).
Wilson, Christopher, The Gothic Cathedral: The Architecture of the Great Church 1130–1530 (London, 1992).
On St Peter’s:
Millon, Henry A., and Smyth, Craig Hugh, Michelangelo Architect: The Façade of San Lorenzo and the Drum and Dome of St. Peter’s, exh. cat. (Milan, 1988).
Thoenes, Christof, ‘St Peter: Erste Skizzen/St. Peter’s: First Sketches’, Daidalos 5 (1982), 81–98.
Tronzo, William, ed., St. Peter’s in the Vatican (Cambridge, 2005).
On treatises, books and architectural writing:
Blunt, Anthony, Artistic Theory in Italy 1450–1600 (London, 1940).
Carpo, Mario, Architecture in the Age of Printing: Orality, Writing, Typography, and Printed Images in the History of Architectural Theory, trans. Sarah Benson (Cambridge, Mass., 2001).
Corbett, Margery, ‘The Architectural Title-Page: An Attempt to Trace its Development from its Humanist Origins up to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, the Heyday of the Complex Engraved Title-Page’, Motif 12 (1964), 48–62.
Davies, Paul, and Hemsoll, David, ‘Sanmicheli’s Architecture and Literary Theory’, in Georgia Clarke and Paul Crossley, eds., Architecture and Language: Constructing Identity in European Architecture c.1000–c.1650 (Cambridge, 2000), 102–17.
Erickson, Roy, The Building in the Text: Alberti to Shakespeare and Milton (Pennsylvania, 2001).
Guillaume, Jean, ed., Les Traités d’architecture de la Renaissance, actes des colloques tenus à Tours, 1–11 July 1981 (Paris, 1988).
Hart, Vaughan, and Hicks, Peter, eds., Paper Palaces: The Rise of the Renaissance Architectural Treatise (New Haven, 1998).
An essential collection of essays on all of the major treatises and authors of the Renaissance.
Jarzombek, Mark, On Leon Baptista Alberti: His Literary and Aesthetic Theories (Cambridge, Mass., 1989).
Kanerva, Liisa, Between Science and Drawings Renaissance Architects on Vitruvius’s Educational Ideas (Helsinki, 2006).
Kruft, Hanno-Walter, A History of Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to the Present (Princeton, 1994).
Lombaerde, Piet, ed., Hans Vredeman de Vries and the Artes Mechanicae Revisited (Turnhout, 2005).
McPhee, Sarah, ‘The Architect as Reader’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 58 (1999), 454–61.
Mallgrave, Harry Francis, Beasley, Gerald, Baines, Claire, and Raine, Henry, The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, iii: Northern European Books, Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries (Washington, DC, 1998).
Middleton, Robin, Beasley, Gerald, and Baines, Claire, The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, ii: British Books, Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Washington, DC, 1998).
Payne, Alina A., The Architectural Treatise in the Italian Renaissance: Architectural Invention, Ornament, and Literary Culture (Cambridge, 1999).
Pollak, Martha D., The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, iv: Italian and Spanish Books, Fifteenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Washington, DC, 2001).
—— Military Architecture, Cartography and the Representation of the Early Modern City: A Checklist of Treatises on Fortification in the Newberry Library (Chicago, 1991).
Rykwert, Joseph, ‘On the Oral Transmission of Architectural Theory’, in Jean Guillaume, ed., Les Traités d’architecture de la Renaissance, actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 1–11 July 1981 (Paris, 1988), 31–48.
Saalman, Howard, ‘Early Renaissance Architectural Theory and Practice in Antonio Filarete’s Trattato di Architettura’, Art Bulletin 41 (1959), 89–106.
Smith, Christine, Architecture in the Culture of Early Humanism: Ethics, Aesthetics, and Eloquence 1400–1470 (Oxford, 1992).
Wiebenson, Dora, Architectural Theory and Practice from Alberti to Ledoux (Chicago, 1982).
—— and Baines, Claire, The Mark J. Millard Architectural Collection, i: French Books, Sixteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries (Washington, DC, 1993).
On architectural practice and the profession:
Ackerman, James, ‘Architectural Practice in the Italian Renaissance’, in his Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 1991), 361–84.
Ettlinger, Leopold D., ‘The Emergence of the Italian Architect during the Fifteenth Century’, in Spiro Kostof, ed., The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession (New York, 1977), 96–123.
Goldthwaite, Richard, The Building of Renaissance Florence: An Economic and Social History (Baltimore, 1980).
Hollingsworth, Mary, ‘The Architecture in Fifteenth-Century Florence’, Art History 7 (1984), 385–410.
Kostof, Spiro, The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession (New York, 1977). Nevola, Fabrizio, ‘Lots of Napkins and a Few Surprises: Francesco di Giorgio Martini’s House, Goods and Social Standing in Late-Fifteenth-Century Siena’, Annali di architettura 18–19 (2006–7), 71–82.
Parsons, William Barclay, Engineers and Engineering in the Renaissance (New York, 1939).
Tussenbroek, Gabri van, The Architectural Network of the Van Neurenberg Family in the Low Countries (1480–1640) (Turnhout, 2006).
Wilkinson, Catherine, ‘The New Professionalism in the Renaissance’, in Spiro Kostof, ed., The Architect: Chapters in the History of the Profession (New York, 1977), 124–60.
Zervas, Diane F., ‘Brunelleschi’s Political Career’, Burlington Magazine 121 (1979), 630–93.
On construction and the science of building:
Coldstream, Nicola, Masons and Sculptors (London, 1991).
Fitchen, John, Building Construction before Mechanization (Cambridge, Mass., 1986).
Gerbino, Anthony, and Johnston, Stephen, Compass and Rule: Architecture as Mathematical Practice in Early Modern England, 1550–1750 (New Haven, 2009).
Guillaume, Jean, ed., Les Chantiers de la Renaissance, actes des colloques tenus à Tours, 1983–4 (Paris, 1991).
Mark, Robert, ed., Architectural Technology up to the Scientific Revolution: The Art and Structure of Large-Scale Buildings (Cambridge, Mass., 1993).
Opačić, Zoë, Diamond Vaults: Innovation and Geometry in Medieval Architecture (London, 2005).
Pagliara, Pier Nicola, and Piana, Mario, eds., Palladio construttore: tecniche, materiali, cantieri. XXXIX Corso sull’architettura palladiana, Vicenza, 8–10 September 1997.
Essays collected in Annali di architettura 10–11 (1998–9), 231–334.
Robison, Elwin C., ‘Structural Implications in Palladio’s Use of Harmonic Proportions’, Annali di architettura 10–11 (1998–9), 175–82.
Schlimme, Hermann, ed., Practice and Science in Early Modern Italian Building: Towards an Epistemic History of Architecture (Milan, 2006).
On drawing:
Ackerman, James, ‘The Origins of Architectural Drawing in the Middle Ages and Renaissance’, in his Origins, Imitation, Conventions: Representation in the Visual Arts (Cambridge, Mass., 2002), 27–66.
Bork, Robert, The Geometry of Creation: Architectural Drawing and the Dynamics of Gothic Design (Aldershot, 2011).
Brothers, Cammy, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture (New Haven, 2008).
Burns, Howard, ‘The Lion’s Claw: Palladio’s Initial Sketches’, Daidalos 5 (1982), 73–80.
Elam, Caroline, ‘Drawings as Documents: The Problem of the San Lorenzo Façade’, Studies in the History of Art 33 (1992), 98–114.
Lotz, Wolfgang, ‘The Rendering of the Interior in Architectural Drawings of the Renaissance’, in his Studies in Italian Renaissance Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 1977), 1–65.
Scaglia, Gustina, ‘Drawings of Roman Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and in the Album Houfe, Ampthill’, Annali di architettura 4–5 (1992–3), 9–21.
On the orders:
Benelli, Francesco, ‘“Variò tanto della commune usanza degli altri”: The Function of the Encased Column and what Michelangelo Made of it in the Palazzo dei Conservatori at the Campidoglio in Rome’, Annali di architettura 21 (2009), 65–78.
Guillaume, Jean, ed., L’Emploi des ordres dans l’architecture de la Renaissance, actes des colloques tenus à Tours, 9–14 July 1986 (Paris, 1992).
Hersey, George L., The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture: Speculations on Ornament from Vitruvius to Venturi (Cambridge, Mass., 1988).
Onians, John, Bearers of Meaning: The Classical Orders in Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance (Princeton, 1988).
Rowland, Ingrid D., ‘Raphael, Angelo Colocci, and the Genesis of the Architectural Orders’, Art Bulletin 76 (1994), 81–104.
Rykwert, Joseph, The Dancing Column: On Order in Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 1996).
Summerson, John, The Classical Language of Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 1963).
Tzonis, Alexander, and Lefaivre, Liane, Classical Architecture: The Poetics of Order (Cambridge, Mass., 1986).
On architecture and the body:
Dodds, George, and Tavernor, Robert, eds., Body and Building: Essays on the Changing Relation of Body and Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 2005).
Hedrick, Donald Keith, ‘The Ideology of Ornament: Alberti and the Erotics of Renaissance Urban Design’, Word & Image 3 (1987), 111–37.
Hersey, George L. Pythagorean Palaces: Magic and Architecture in the Italian Renaissance (Ithaca, NY, 1976).
Lowic, L., ‘The Meaning and Significance of the Human Analogy in Francesco di Giorgio’s Trattato’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 42 (1983), 360–70.
On antiquity:
Aston, Margaret, ‘English Ruins and English History: The Dissolution and the Sense of the Past’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 36 (1973), 231–55.
Bolgar, R. R., The Classical Heritage and its Beneficiaries from the Carolingian Age to the End of the Renaissance (New York, 1964).
Bosman, Lex, The Power of Tradition: Spolia in the Architecture of St. Peter’s in the Vatican (Hilversum, 2004).
Brilliant, Richard, and Kinney, Dale, eds., Reuse Value: Spolia and Appropriation in Art and Architecture from Constantine to Sherrie Levine (Aldershot, 2011).
Burns, Howard, ‘Quattrocento Architecture and the Antique: Some Problems’, in R. R. Bolgar, ed., Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500–1500 (Cambridge, 1971), 269–87.
Curran, Brian, The Egyptian Renaissance: The Afterlife of Ancient Egypt in Early Modern Italy (Chicago, 2007).
Gombrich, E. H., ‘The Style all’antica: Imitation and Assimilation’, in his Norm and Form: Studies in the Art of the Renaissance 1 (London, 1985), 122–8.
Grafton, Anthony, Most, Glenn W., and Settis, Salvatore, eds., The Classical Tradition (Cambridge, Mass., 2010).
Howard, Deborah, ‘Responses to Ancient Greek Architecture in Renaissance Venice’, Annali di architettura 6 (1994), 23–38.
Jacks, Philip, The Antiquarian and the Myth of Antiquity: The Origins of Rome in Renaissance Thought (New York, 1993).
Karmon, David, ‘Preserving Antiquity in a Protestant City: The Maison Carrèe in Sixteenth-Century Nîmes’, in Virginia Chieffo Raguin, ed., Art, Piety and Destruction in the Christian West, 1500–1700 (Farnham, 2010), 113–35.
—— The Ruin of the Eternal City: Antiquity and Preservation in Renaissance Rome (Oxford, 2011).
Lemerle, Frédérique, La Renaissance et les antiquités de la Gaule: l’architecture galloromaine vue par les architectes, antiquaires et voyageurs des guerres d’Italie à la Fronde (Turnhout, 2005).
McGowan, Margaret M., The Vision of Rome in Late Renaissance France (New Haven, 2000).
Weiss, Roberto, The Renaissance Discovery of Classical Antiquity (Oxford, 1988).
Wunder, Amanda, ‘Classical, Christian, and Muslim Remains in the Construction of Imperial Seville (1520–1635)’, Journal of the History of Ideas 64 (2003), 195–212.
Asch, Ronald G., and Birke, Adolf M., eds., Princes, Patronage, and the Nobility: The Court at the Beginning of the Modern Age, c.1450–1650 (London, 1991).
Coffin, David R., Pirro Ligorio: The Renaissance Artist, Architect, and Antiquarian (University Park, Pa., 2004).
Cole, Alison, Virtue and Magnificence: Art of the Italian Renaissance Courts (New York, 1995).
Dickens, G., ed., The Courts of Europe: Politics, Patronage and Royalty 1400–1800 (New York, 1977).
Fantoni, Marcello, Gorse, George, and Smuts, Malcolm, eds., The Politics of Space: European Courts ca.1500–1700 (Rome, 2009).
Fraser Jenkins, D., ‘Cosimo de’ Medici’s Patronage of Architecture and the Theory of Magnificence’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 33 (1970), 162–70.
Goldthwaite, Richard, Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300–1600 (Baltimore, 1993).
Guillaume, Jean, ed., Architecture et vie sociale: l’organisation intérieure des grandes demeures à la fin du Moyen Âge et à la Renaissance, actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 6–10 June 1988 (Paris, 1994).
—— ed., Demeures d’éternité: églises et chapelles funéraires aux XVe et XVIe siècles, actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 11–14 June 1996 (Paris, 2005).
Hollingsworth, Mary, Patronage in Renaissance Italy: From 1400 to the Early Sixteenth Century (London, 1994).
Holme, B. Princely Feasts and Festivals: Five Centuries of Pageantry and Spectacle (New York, 1988).
Strong, Roy, Art and Power: Renaissance Festivals, 1450–1650 (Woodbridge, 1984).
On Urbino:
Heydenreich, L. H., ‘Federico da Montefeltro as a Building Patron: Some Remarks on the Ducal Palace of Urbino’, in Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Art Presented to Anthony Blunt on his 60th Birthday (London, 1967), 1–6.
Rotondi, P., The Ducal Palace of Urbino (London, 1969).
Westfall, C. W., ‘Chivalric Declaration: The Palazzo Ducale in Urbino as a Political Statement’, in H. A. Millon and L. Nochlin, eds., Art and Architecture in the Service of Politics (Cambridge, Mass., 1978), 20–45.
On the Hapsburg and Spanish patronage:
Brothers, Cammy, ‘The Renaissance Reception of the Alhambra: The Letters of Andrea Navagero and the Palace of Charles V’, Muqarnas 11 (1994), 79–102.
Eichberger, Dagmar, ‘A Noble Residence for a Female Regent: Margaret of Austria and the “Court of Savoy” in Mechelen’, in Helen Hills, ed., Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot, 2003), 25–46.
Howard, Deborah, ‘Bramante’s Tempietto: Spanish Royal Patronage in Rome’, Apollo 136 (1992), 211–17.
Kubler, George, Building the Escorial (Princeton, 1982).
—— ‘A Sixteenth Century Meaning of the Escorial’, Diogenes 29 (1981), 229–48.
Rosenthal, Earl, The Palace of Charles V in Granada (Princeton, 1985).
Wilkinson, Catherine, ‘Juan de Herrera’s Orders’, in Jean Guillaume, ed., L’Emploi des ordres dans l’architecture de la Renaissance (Paris, 1992), 263–72.
On Pius II and Pienza:
Mack, Peter, Pienza: The Creation of a Renaissance City (Ithaca, NY, 1987).
Pieper, J. ‘Architecture Grows out of Stone: Metaphors of Transformation in the Palace of Pius II in Pienza’, Daidalos 31 (1989), 76–87.
On England:
Anglo, Sydney, Spectacle, Pageantry and Early Tudor Policy (Oxford, 1969).
Richardson, Glenn, ‘Entertainments for the French Ambassadors at the Court of Henry VIII’, Renaissance Studies 9 (1995), 404–15.
Russell, Joycelyne G., The Field of Cloth of Gold: Men and Manners in 1520 (London, 1969).
Thurley, Simon, The Royal Palaces of Tudor England: Architecture and Court Life, 1460–1547 (New Haven, 1993).
On Francis I:
Chatenet, Monique, Chambord (Paris, 2001).
Knecht, R. J., Renaissance Warrior and Patron: The Reign of Francis I (Cambridge, 1994).
Kent, F. W., ‘Individuals and Families as Patrons of Culture in Quattrocento Florence’, in Alison Brown, ed., Language and Images of Renaissance Italy (Oxford, 1995), 171–92.
Martin, John Jeffries, Myths of Renaissance Individualism (Basingstoke, 2004).
Trexler, Richard C., ed., Persons in Groups: Social Behavior as Identity Formation in Medieval and Renaissance Europe (Binghamton, NY, 1985).
Wojciehowski, Hannah Chapelle, Group Identity in the Renaissance (Cambridge, 2011).
On schools and universities:
Gillam, Stanley, The Divinity School and Duke Humphrey’s Library at Oxford (Oxford, 1988).
Grendler, Paul F., Books and Schools in the Italian Renaissance (Aldershot, 1995).
King, Margaret L., Women of the Renaissance (Chicago, 1991).
McConica, James, ed., The History of the University of Oxford, iii: The Collegiate University (Oxford, 1986).
On the Fuggers:
Häberlein, Mark, The Fuggers of Augsburg: Pursuing Wealth and Honor in Renaissance Germany (Charlottesville, Va., 2012).
Kluger, Martin, The Wealthy Fuggers: Pomp and Power of the German Medici (Augsburg, 2003).
Tietz-Strödel, Marion, Die Fuggerei in Augsburg: Studien zur Entwicklung des sozialen Stiftungsbaus im 15. und 16. Jahrhundert (Tübingen, 1982).
Hospitals and almshouses:
Gavitt, Philip, Charity and Children in Renaissance Florence: The Ospedale degli Innocenti, 1410–1536 (Ann Arbor, 1990).
Godfrey, W. H., The English Almshouse (London, 1956).
Goodall, John A. A., God’s House at Ewelme: Life, Devotion, and Architecture in a Fifteenth-Century Almshouse (Aldershot, 2001).
Henderson, John, The Renaissance Hospital: Healing the Body and Healing the Soul (New Haven, 2006).
Terpstra, Nicholas, Abandoned Children of the Italian Renaissance: Orphan Care in Florence and Bologna (Baltimore, 2005).
Thompson, John, and Goldin, Grace, The Hospital: A Social and Architectural History (New Haven, 1975).
Religious communities:
Dunn, Marilyn, ‘Spaces Shaped for Spiritual Perfection: Convent Architecture and Nuns in Early Modern Rome’, in Helen Hills, ed., Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot, 2003), 151–76.
Lehfeldt, Elizabeth A., ‘Spatial Discipline and its Limits: Nuns and the Built Environment in Early Modern Spain’, in Helen Hills, ed., Architecture and the Politics of Gender in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot, 2003), 131–49.
Lowe, K J. P., Nuns’ Chronicles and Convent Culture in Renaissance and Counter-Reformation Italy (Cambridge, 2003).
Roffey, Simon, Chantry Chapels and Medieval Strategies for the Afterlife (Stroud, 2008).
Strocchia, Sharon T., Nuns and Nunneries in Renaissance Florence (Baltimore, 2009).
Tafuri, Manfredo, ‘The Scuole Grandi’, in his Venice and the Renaissance, trans. Jessica Levine (Cambridge, Mass., 1995), 81–101.
Thomas, Anabel, Art and Piety in the Female Religious Communities of Renaissance Italy: Iconography, Space, and the Religious Woman’s Perspective (Cambridge, 2003).
Wisch, Barbara, and Cole Ahl, Diane, eds., Confraternities and the Visual Arts in Renaissance Italy: Ritual, Spectacle, Image (Cambridge, 2000).
Alberti, Leon Battista, Delineation of the City of Rome (Descriptio vrbis Romae), trans. Peter Hicks, ed. Mario Carpo and Francesco Furlan (Tempe, Ariz., 2007).
De Góis, Damião, Lisbon in the Renaissance (Urbis Olisiponsis descriptio), trans. Jeffrey S. Ruth (1554; New York, 1996).
Palladio, Andrea, Palladio’s Rome, trans. Vaughan Hart and Peter Hicks (New Haven, 2006).
Stow, John, A Survey of London Written in the Year 1598 (1598; Dover, NH, 1994).
Ackerman, James S., and Rosenfeld, Myra Nan, ‘Social Stratification in Renaissance Urban Planning’, in Susan Zimmerman and Ronald F. E. Weissman, eds., Urban Life in the Renaissance (Newark, Del., 1989).
Adams, Nicholas, and Nussdorfer, Laurie, ‘The Italian City, 1400–1600’, in Henry Millon, ed., The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: The Representation of Architecture (London, 1994).
Argan, Giulio C., The Renaissance City, trans. S. E. Bassnet (New York, 1970).
Benevolo, Leonardo, The History of the City (London, 1980).
Bork, Robert, Great Spires: Sky Scrapers of the New Jerusalem (Cologne, 2003).
Cowan, Alexander, Urban Europe, 1500–1700 (London, 1998).
De Vylder, Jochen, ‘The Grid and the Existing City: Or How New Civic Buildings and Interventions on Confiscated Grounds Transformed the Medieval City in Early Modern Times. A Focus on Antwerp (1531–84)’, in Piet Lombaerde and Charles Van Den Heuvel, eds., Early Modern Urbanism and the Grid: Town Planning in the Low Countries in International Context. Exchanges in Theory and Practice 1550–1800 (Turnhout, 2011), 77–93.
Elam, Caroline, ‘Lorenzo the Magnificent and the Urban Development of Renaissance Florence’, Art History 1 (1978), 43–66.
Friedman, David, Florentine New Towns: Urban Design in the Late Middle Ages (New York, 1988).
Friedrichs, Christopher R., The Early Modern City 1450–1750 (London, 1995).
Gaunt, William, Flemish Cities: Their History and Art (New York, 1969).
Kubler, George, ‘Open-Grid Town Plans in Europe and America’, in Richard P. Schaedel, Jorge E. Hardoy, and Nora Scott Kinzer, eds., Urbanization in the Americas from its Beginnings to the Present (The Hague, 1978), 327–42.
McClung, William Alexander, The Architecture of Paradise: Survivals of Eden and Jerusalem (Berkeley, 1983).
Nijenhuis, Wim, ‘Stevin’s Grid City and the Maurice Conspiracy’, in Piet Lombaerde and Charles Van Den Heuvel, eds., Early Modern Urbanism and the Grid: Town Planning in the Low Countries in International Context. Exchanges in Theory and Practice 1550–1800 (Turnhout, 2011), 45–62.
La piazza del medioevo e rinascimento nell’Italia settentrionale. IX Seminario internazional di storia dell’architettura, Vicenza, 3–8 September 1990. Essays collected in Annali di architettura 4–5 (1992–3), 113–229.
Rosenberg, C. M., The Este Monuments and Urban Development in Renaissance Ferrara (Cambridge, 1997).
—— ‘The Erculean Addition to Ferrara: Contemporary Reactions and Pragmatic Considerations’, The Early Renaissance, Acta 5 (1978), 49–67.
Saalman, Howard, The Transformation of Buildings and the City in the Renaissance (Champlain, NY, 1996).
Sennett, Richard, Flesh and Stone (New York, 1994).
Thomson, David, Renaissance Paris (Berkeley, 1984).
Tittler, Robert, Architecture and Power: The Town Hall and the English Urban Community, c.1500–1640 (Oxford, 1991).
Trachtenberg, Marvin, Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, and Power in Early Modern Florence (Cambridge, 1997).
Trio, Paul, and De Smet, Marjan, eds., The Use and Abuse of Sacred Places in Late Medieval Towns (Leuven, 2006).
Tuohy, T. J., Herculean Ferrara, Ercole d’Este (1471–1505) and the Invention of a Ducal Capital (Cambridge, 1995).
Infrastructure:
Rinne, Katherine W., ‘Fluid Precision: Giacomo della Porta and the Acqua Vergine Fountains of Rome’, in Jan Birksted, ed., Landscapes of Memory and Experience (London, 2000), 183–201.
—— The Waters of Rome: Aqueducts, Fountains, and the Birth of the Baroque City (New Haven, 2011).
Public space:
Ackerman, James S., ‘Palladio, Michelangelo and publica magnificentia’, Annali di architettura 22 (2010), 63–78.
Muir, Edward, and Weissman, Ronald F. E., ‘Social and Symbolic Places in Renaissance Venice and Florence’, in John A. Agnew and James S. Duncan, eds., The Power of Place: Bringing Together Geographical and Sociological Imaginations (Boston, 1989).
Ottenheym, Konrad, Chatenet, Monique, and De Jonge, Krista, eds., Public Buildings in Early Modern Europe, vol. ix of Architectura moderna: Architectural Exchanges in Europe, 16th–17th Centuries (Turnhout, 2010).
Rinne, Katherine W., ‘The Landscape of Laundry in Late Cinquecento Rome’, Studies in the Decorative Arts 9 (2001–2), 34–60.
Schofield, John, ‘Social Perceptions of Space in Medieval and Tudor London Houses’, in Martin Locock, ed., Meaningful Architecture: Social Interpretations of Buildings (Aldershot, 1994), 231–52.
—— ‘Architecture and the Assertion of the Cult of Relics in Milan’s Public Spaces’, Annali di architettura 16 (2004), 79–120.
Symmes, Marilyn, ed., Fountains Splash and Spectacle: Water and Design from the Renaissance to the Present (New York, 1998).
Trachtenberg, Marvin, Dominion of the Eye, Urbanism, Art and Power in Early Modern Florence (Cambridge, 1997).
Fortifications:
De La Croix, Horst, Military Considerations in City Planning (New York, 1972).
Pepper, Simon, and Adams, Nicholas, Firearms & Fortifications: Military Architecture and Siege Warfare in Sixteenth-Century Siena (Chicago, 1986).
Pollak, Martha, Cities at War in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 2010).
Tracy, James D., ed., City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2000). Includes essays by Simon Pepper, Martha Pollak, and Geoffrey Parker on siege warfare; George Milner on prehistoric North America and Richard Kagan on cities in colonial Spanish America; Michael Wolfe on walls during the French wars of religion.
Festivals and entries:
Arnade, Peter, Realms of Ritual: Burgundian Ceremony and Civic Life in Late Medieval Ghent (Ithaca, NY, 1996).
Bergeron, David M., English Civic Pageantry, 1558–1642 (Columbia, SC, 1971).
Mitchell, B., Italian Civic Pageantry in the High Renaissance: A Descriptive Bibliography of Triumphal Entries and Selected Other Festivals for State Occasions (Florence, 1979).
Smuts, R. Malcolm, ‘Public Ceremony and Royal Charisma: The English Royal Entry in London, 1485–1642’, in A. L. Beier et al., eds., The First Modern Society: Essays in Honour of Lawrence Stone (Cambridge, 1989), 65–93.
Markets:
Calabi, Donatella, The Market and the City: Square, Street and Architecture in Early Modern Europe (Aldershot, 2004).
Postles, David, ‘The Market Place as Space in Early Modern England’, Social History 29 (2004), 41–58.
Welch, Evelyn, Shopping in the Renaissance (New Haven, 2005).
Houses and palaces:
Chastel, André, and Guillaume, Jean, eds., La Maison de ville à la Renaissance: recherches sur l’habitat urbain en Europe aux XVe et XVI siècles, actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 10–14 May 1977 (Paris, 1983).
Clarke, Georgia, ‘History, Politics, and Art on Palace Façades in Early Sixteenth-Century Rome’, in Maria Beltramini and Caroline Elam, eds., Some Degree of Happiness: studi di storia dell’architettura in onore di Howard Burns (Pisa, 2010), 233–58.
—— Roman House–Renaissance Palaces: Inventing Antiquity in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Cambridge, 2003).
Cooper, Tracy E., ‘Palladio and his Patrons: The Performance of Magnificenza’, Annali di architettura 22 (2010), 89–100.
Goldthwaite, Richard, ‘The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture’, American Historical Review 77 (1972), 977–1012.
Goy, Richard J., The House of Gold: Building a Palace in Medieval Venice (Cambridge, 1992).
Kent, F. W., ‘Palaces, Politics and Society’, I Tatti Studies 2 (1987), 41–70.
Lindow, James R., The Renaissance Palace in Florence: Magnificence and Splendour in Fifteenth-Century Italy (Aldershot, 2007).
Schmitter, Monika, ‘Falling through the Cracks: The Fate of Painted Palace Façades in Sixteenth-Century Italy’, in Christy Anderson, ed., The Built Surface, i: Architecture and the Pictorial Arts from Antiquity to the Enlightenment (Aldershot, 2002), 130–61.
Ackerman, James S., ‘The Belvedere as a Classical Villa’, Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 14 (1951), 70–91.
—— ‘The Tuscan/Rustic Order: A Study in the Metaphorical Language of Architecture’, in his Distance Points: Essays in Theory and Renaissance Art and Architecture (Cambridge, Mass., 1991), 495–545.
—— The Villa: Form and Ideology of Country Houses (Princeton, 1990).
Bentman, Richard, and Muller, Michael, The Villa as Hegemonic Architecture, trans. Tim Spence and David Craven (Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1992).
Chatenet, Monique, ed., Maisons des champs dans l’Europe de la Renaissance, actes des premières Rencontres d’architecture européenne, Château de Maisons, 10–13 June 2003 (Paris, 2006).
Coffin, David R., The Villa in the Life of Renaissance Rome (Princeton, 1979).
Cooper, Nicholas, Houses of the Gentry 1480–1680 (New Haven, 1999).
Friedman, Alice, House and Household in Elizabethan England: Wollaton House and the Willoughby Family (Chicago, 1989).
Girouard, Mark, Robert Smythson & the Elizabethan Country House (New Haven, 1983).
Howard, Maurice, The Early Tudor Country House: Architecture and Politics 1490–1550 (London, 1987).
—— ‘The Ideal House and Healthy Life: The Origins of Architectural Theory in England’, in Jean Guillaume, ed., Les Traités d’architecture de la Renaissance, actes du colloque tenu à Tours, 1–11 July 1981 (Paris, 1988), 426–33.
Johnson, Matthew, Behind the Castle Gate: From Medieval to Renaissance (New York, 2002).
—— ‘Reconstructing Castles and Refashioning Identities in Renaissance England’, in Sarah Tarlow and Susie West, eds., The Familiar Past? Archaeologies of Later Historical Britain (London, 1998), 69–86.
Lillie, Amanda, Florentine Villas of the Fifteenth Century: An Architectural and Social History (Cambridge, 2005).
Muraro, Michelangelo, Venetian Villas (New York, 1986).
Pounds, N. J. P., The Medieval Castle in England and Wales: A Social and Political History (Cambridge, 1990).
Rykwert, Joseph, On Adam’s House in Paradise: The Idea of the Primitive Hut in Architectural History (Cambridge, Mass., 1981).
Shearman, John, ‘A Functional Interpretation of Villa Madama’, Römisches Jahrbuch für Kunstgeschichte 20 (1983), 313–27.
Thompson, M. W., The Decline of the Castle (Cambridge, 1987).
—— The Medieval Hall: The Basis of Secular Domestic Life, 600–1600 AD (Aldershot, 1995).
Wheeler, D., et al., The Châteaux of France (London, 1979).
On gardens:
Adams, W. H., The French Garden, 1500–1800 (New York, 1979).
Beneš, Mirka, and Lee, Michael G., eds., Clio in the Italian Garden: Twenty-First-Century Studies in Historical Methods and Theoretical Perspectives (Washington, DC, 2011).
—— and Harris, D., eds., Villas and Gardens in Early Modern Italy and France (Cambridge, 2001).
Coffin, David R., ed., The Italian Garden (Washington, DC, 1972).
Comito, Terry, The Idea of the Garden in the Renaissance (New Brunswick, NJ, 1977).
Cosgrove, Denis, The Palladian Landscape: Geographical Change and its Cultural Representation in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Leicester, 1993).
Guillaume, Jean, ed., Architecture, jardin, paysage: l’environnement du château et de la villa aux XVe et XVI siècles, actes des colloques tenus à Tours, 1–4 June 1992 (Paris, 1999).
Hardy, Matthew, ‘“Study the warm winds and the cold”: Hippocrates and the Renaissance Villa’, in Barbara Kenda, ed., Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture (London, 2006), 48–69.
Henderson, Paula, The Tudor House and Garden: Architecture and Landscape in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries (New Haven, 2005).
Hunt, John Dixon, Garden and Grove (London, 1986).
Jellicoe, G., Jellicoe, S., Goode, P., and Lancaster, M., eds., The Oxford Companion to Gardens (Oxford, 1986).
Lazzaro, Claudia, The Italian Renaissance Garden: From the Conventions of Planting, Design and Ornament to the Grand Gardens of Sixteenth-Century Central Italy (New Haven, 1990).
Leslie, Michael, and Hunt, J. D., ‘Garden and Architectural Dreamscapes in the Hypnerotomachia Poliphili’, Word & Image 14 (June 1998).
Mosser, M., and Teyssot, G., eds., The History of Garden Design: The Western Tradition from the Renaissance to the Present Day (London, 1991).
Neil, Erik H., ‘A Green City: Ideas, Conditions, and Practices of the Garden in Sixteenth Century Palermo’, in A. Casamento and E. Guidoni, eds., L’urbanistica del Cinquecento in Sicilia (Rome, 1999), 227–35.
Nova, Alessandro, ‘The Role of the Winds in Architectural Theory from Vitruvius to Scamozzi’, in Barbara Kenda, ed., Aeolian Winds and the Spirit in Renaissance Architecture (London, 2006), 70–86.
Strong, Roy, Renaissance Gardens in England (London, 1994).
These books and articles offer a window onto global architecture in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Anderson, Christy, ‘Without Art, Without Order: Ideas of Architecture in the New World’, Architecture and Ideas 2 (2000), 58–73.
Dean, Carolyn, A Culture of Stone: Inka Perspectives on Rock (Chapel Hill, NC, 2010).
DeCorse, Christopher R., An Archaeology of Elmina: Africans and Europeans on the Gold Coast, 1400–1900 (Washington, DC, 2001).
A study of the castle at Elmina in Ghana, central in the Atlantic slave trade.
Fraser, Valerie, The Architecture of Conquest: Building in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1535–1635 (Cambridge, 1990).
Goody, Jack, Renaissances: The One or the Many? (Cambridge, 2010).
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