Borrowing Library Materials
Requests for books from other CSCU libraries are done through the catalog. Select Buley Library as the pick-up location
Return materials at the Circulation/checkout desk or the drop box outside of the library.
Library materials that do not circulate include items in these collections: Reference Collection, Special Collections, Periodicals Collection and the Microfilm/Microfiche Collection
Use SouthernSearch to search for books on topics related to Italian Renaissance Art. Use the limiters on the left to focus your search.
Examples of some recommended titles are listed below. Please note that Buley Library may not own the textbook for your course, (Campbell and Cole's Italian Renaissance Art) however the instructor will usually place a copy of the textbook on reserve at the checkout desk. Use the center pull-down window in SouthernSearch to search for Course Reserves.
Textbooks and Reference Books often include useful "Bibliographies" and "Suggestions for Further Reading" at the end of the book or chapter.
For further reading:
Italian Renaissance Art Painting Sculpture Architecture (Hartt) REQUEST from CSCU libraries
Italian Renaissance Art (Laurie Adams, 2014) Textbook Collection
History of Italian Renaissance Art by Hartt. Hilton C. Buley Library Oversize stacks / Call Number: N6915.H37 198 ISBN: 0810911639 Publication Date: 1987
Ebooks in the DeGruyter Collection Database
Online texts from the Internet Archive (“Register and borrow; renewable every hour pending availability”)
Art in Renaissance Italy (Paoletti, 1997)
After Raphael (Marcia Hall)
Italian Renaissance Art Painting Sculpture Architecture (Frederick Hartt) 7th edition (2011).
CITIES
Art and Life in Renaissance Venice, Brown, Patricia Fortini. Hilton C. Buley Library Main Circulating Stacks / Call Number: N6921.V5B75 1997
The Art of Renaissance Rome (Partridge) (request from Housatonic CC)
Renaissance Florence (Turner) (request via Interlibrary loan)
Virtue and Magnificence: Art of Italian Renaissance Courts (Cole)
Painting in Renaissance Florence (Franklin) Hilton C. Buley Library Oversize stacks 3rd floor / Call Number: ND621.F7 F725 2001
Art of Papal Rome (Franklin) Request through Interlibrary Loan
Painting in Renaissance Venice (Humphrey)
Hilton C. Buley Library Main Circulating Stacks / Call Number: ND621.V5 H77 1995
Painting in Renaissance Venice (request from other CSCU libraries)
PAINTING
Painting and Experience (Baxandall)
Hilton C. Buley Library Main Circulating Stacks / Call Number: ND615.B32
Also available by request from other CSCU libraries
Painting in Italy, 1500-1600 (Freedberg)
Hilton C. Buley Library Main Circulating Stacks / Call Number: ND615.F66 1979
Also available by request from Gateway Community College
Mannerism (Shearman)
Hilton C. Buley Library Main Circulating Stacks / Call Number: N6370.S78 1967
Also available by request
After Raphael (Hall) (request from Interlibrary loan)
Raphael School of Athens (Hall)
Hilton C. Buley Library Main Circulating Stacks / Call Number: ND623.R2 A76 1997
Color and Meaning: practice and theory in Renaissance painting
Hilton C. Buley Library Oversize stacks / Call Number: ND170.H3 1991
Additional search examples:
painting italy 15th century
painting italy 16th century
SCULPTURE
Italian Renaissance Sculpture (Olson) Request through Interlibrary Loan
Looking at Italian Renaissance Sculpture (McHam) Request through Interlibrary Loan
Additional search examples:
SouthernSearch: "Italian Renaissance Sculpture" (limited to books)
Sculpture Italy 15th century
Sculpture Italy 16 century
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Frommel) (by request from CSCU)
Architecture in Italy (Heydenreich and Lotz)
Architecture of the Italian Renaissance (Murray)
Architectural Principles (Wittkower)
Hilton C. Buley Library Main Circulating Stacks / Call Number: NA520.W5 1988
PRINTS
The Renaissance Print: 1470-1550. Landau and Parshall,
Hilton C. Buley Library Oversize stacks / Call Number: NE441.5.R44 L35 1994
Michael Bury, The Print in Italy 1550-1620 (submit request through Interlibrary Loan)
Sources and Documents
Gilbert, Italian Art 1400-1500. Hilton C. Buley Library Oversize stacks / Call Number: NE441.5.R44 L35 1994
Klein and Zerner, Italian Art 1500-1600 (request through Interlibrary Loan)
