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Article Indexes & Databases

BHA and RILA cover European and American visual arts material published between 1975 and 2007.

JSTOR
Approximately 165 art, architectural history, and archaeology titles are included.

Oxford Art Online
Best place to start searching artists, periods, topics.

Worldcat Online Catalog
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Note: Many of the databases and/or article links referenced in this guide require CaneID authentication through the the UM Library system unless denoted by the "open access" symbol. 
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"Peer Reviewed" articles are written by experts and are reviewed by several other experts in the field before the article is published in the journal in order to ensure the article's quality. 

“Beauty awakens the soul to act.”
Dante Alighieri

 Canaletto. The Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice. c. 1730

Print Books

Borngässer Klein, Barbara, et al. Early Modern Architecture: Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo. Feierabend, 2006.

Cowan, Alexander. Urban Europe, 1500-1700. London; New York: Arnold, 1998. 

Hanawalt, Reyerson, Hanawalt, Barbara A., and Reyerson, Kathryn. City and Spectacle in Medieval Europe. Medieval Studies at Minnesota; v. 6. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1994.

Millon, et al. The Renaissance from Brunelleschi to Michelangelo: the Representation of Architecture. Rizzoli, 1994.

Norberg-Schulz, Christian. Baroque Architecture. Electa; Rizzoli, 1986.

Schlimme, Hermann. Practice and Science in Early Modern Italan Building: towards an Epistemic History of Architecture. Electa, 2006.

Tafuri, Manfredo, Sherer, Daniel Tr, and Hays, K. Michael  Interpreting the Renaissance: Princes, Cities, Architects. New Haven, CT, Yale UP, in Association with Harvard U Graduate School of Design, 2006. 

Vasari, et al. Vasari's Lives of the Artists; Biographies of the Most Eminent Architects, Painters, and Sculptors of Italy. G. Allen and Unwin, 1960.

Zanlungo, Claudia., and Daniela. Tarabra. The Story of Baroque Architecture. English ed., Prestel, 2012.

Zirpolo, Lilian H. Historical Dictionary of Baroque Art and Architecture. Scarecrow Press, 2010.

E-Books

Benedict, Philip. Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France. Routledge, 1992.

Black, Christopher. Early Modern Italy: A Social History, Taylor & Francis Group, 2001. ProQuest Ebook Central. 

Biow, Douglas, and ProQuest. Vasari's Words: the Lives of the Artists as a History of Ideas in the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Borys, Ann Marie. Vincenzo Scamozzi and the Chorography of Early Modern Architecture. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014.

Bowd, Stephen D., and Villa I Tatti. Venice's Most Loyal City Civic Identity in Renaissance Brescia. Harvard University Press, 2010.

Brucker, Gene A. The Civic World of Early Renaissance Florence. Princeton University Press, 1977.

Cast, David. The Ashgate Research Companion to Giorgio Vasari. Ashgate, 2014.

Cheng, Irene, et al. Race and Modern Architecture: a Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2020.

Cohen, Thomas V., and Riitta Laitinen. Cultural History of Early Modern European Streets. Boston: Brill, 2009. Brill EBook Titles 2009. 

Davids, et al. Innovation and Creativity in Late Medieval and Early Modern European Cities. Ashgate, 2014.

Eck, et al. Theatricality in Early Modern Art and Architecture. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.

Lazrus, Paula Kay. Building the Italian Renaissance: Brunelleschi's Dome and the Florence Cathedral. Reacting Consortium Press, University of North Carolina Press, 2019.

Pearson, Caspar, and Ebrary, Inc. Humanism and the Urban World : Leon Battista Alberti and the Renaissance City. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.

Pollio, Vitruvius, et al. Ten Books on Architecture. Digireads.com Publishing, 2012.

Stage, Kelly J. Producing Early Modern London: a Comedy of Urban Space, 1598–1616. University of Nebraska Press, 2018.

Trexler, Richard C. Public Life in Renaissance Florence. Cornell University Press, 1980.