UWLibrary Links for Rome Center Students
Magazine Articles: Magazine articles can be scanned and delivered on the web to you in Rome. Contact ILL for information.
Books: These can be sent, but transport can be time-consuming.
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Online
The Grove Dictionary of Art A good basic source for most topics on Roman art and architecture is online Grove Art can be accessed from computers in the Rome Center, or through the UW Library Proxy Server.
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Architecture
Good for images of Roman Architecture University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
Digital Roman Coliseum UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
Digital Roman Forum, UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
Learning to Read Rome’s Ruins ibiblio.org
Art
Art History Resources on the Web: Roman Art Sweet Briar College, Sweet Briar, VA
History, Literature, Law
Abridged History of Rome Site maintained by Roberto Piperno, an amateur historian of Rome.
Ancient Roman Culture Has some interesting facts on daily life in Ancient Rome; Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN
De Imperatoribus Romanis An Online Encyclopedia of Roman Rulers and their Families
Early Roman Civilization, 753-509 BCE
Forum Antiquorum Ancient World Internet Resources, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Forum Romanum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Hellenistic and Roman Bibliography Bibliography of books and articles on Hellenistic and Roman history maintained by Fenrir.dk
Perseus Good source for Ancient Greek and Latin texts if you read them; Tufts University, Boston, MA
Roman Law, Fordham University School of Law, Bronx, NY
Roman Law Page University of Saarbrucken, Germany; site in English
Rome Project The Dalton School, New York, NY; Excellent array of links covering Roman literature, military history, archaeology, politics, philosophy, drama, religion, and a miscellaneous general category
The Roman Revolution: The End of Republican Rome
The Roman World Links Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, NZ
Books, Articles, Dissertations
I, Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome , D.E.E. Kleiner and S.B. Matheson, eds., (New Haven : Yale University Press, 2000)
Favro, Diane, The Urban Image of Augustan Rome , Cambridge University Press, 1996. (Reissued in paperback 1998.)
Gabucci, Ada, Ancient Rome: Art, Architecture and History, Stefano Peccatori and Stefano Zuffi, eds.; translated by T.M. Hartmann, (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2002)
Richard, Carl J., The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1994)
Thurber, T. Barton and Randolph, Adrian W.B., Antiquity in Rome from the Renaissance to the Age of Enlightenment, (Hood Museum of Art
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; distributed by University Press of New England, 2001)
Doctoral Dissertation: Quenemoen, Caroline, The Architectural Significance of the House of Augustus, (New Haven: Yale University, 1997)
Article: “The Portico of the Danaids: a New Reconstruction,” Caroline K. Quenemoen, photos., elevations, site plans, plans, charts, reconstructions, computer drawings. In: American Journal of Archaeology, 2006 Apr., v.110, n.2, p.229-250
Article: Favro, Diane, and Dean L. Abernathy, "A Columnar Experience: VR Analysis of Trajan's Column." CRM (Cultural Resource Management, 21:5 (1998): 23-25.
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Dale Kinney, Professor of History of Art; Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA; site includes bibliography of her recent articles on medieval Rome.
Rome, ca. 300–1300, Professor Holger Klein, Columbia University, New York, NY; site contains bibliography.
Bibliography of [Medieval] Roman Pilgrimages: Secondary Sources, Compiled by Virginia Raguin and Sarah Stanbury, College of Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
Medieval Rome in the Footsteps of an XVIIIth-century Traveler; this site has nice plates of medieval Roman monuments made in the 18th century.
Santa Maria Maggiore, Experiential Technologies Center, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Books, Articles, Dissertations, Lectures
Osborne, John, Medieval Rome: A History in Art , (London : Pindar Press, 2007) ISBN: 1904597416
Early Medieval Rome and the Christian West: Essays in Honour of Donald A. Bullough . Edited by Julia M. H. Smith. Brill. Leiden. 2000. Pp. xxxii + 446. Review in: B. Ward-Perkins, English Historical Review, Volume 117, Number 474, November 2002, pp. 1303-1304
Krautheimer, Richard, Early Christian and Byzantine Architecture, (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin Books, 1986)
Krautheimer, Richard, Rome: Profile of a City, 312-1308, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000)
Lloyd, Joan Barclay, The Medieval Church and Canonry of S. Clemente in Rome, (San Clemente Miscellany, 3), (Rome: San Clemente, 1989)
Lectures: 38 th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Session #395: "Medieval Rome I: Patrons and Patronage" Sponsor: International Center of Medieval Art
Organizer: Kirstin Noreen, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA, and John Osborne, Queen's Univ., Kingston, ON
Presider: Kirstin Noreen
“Who's Who in Early Medieval Rome : Image and Audience at Santa Maria Antiqua,” Stephen J. Lucey, College of Wooster
“Tradition and Innovation: The Apse Program of S. Maria in Pallara and Private Patronage in Tenth-Century Rome Laura Marchiori,” Univ. of Toronto
“Life after Death: The Afterlife of Sarcophagi in Medieval Rome ,” Dorothy Verkerk, Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill “ Visions on Vellum: Bringing Santa Maria in Trastevere to Life,” Brenda Bolton, Queen Mary and Westfield College , Univ. of London
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Renaissance Rome : General Sources
Renaissance Rome: In the Footsteps of an XVIIIth Century Traveler
Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
Urban Landscape of Renaissance Rome, Prof. Medina Lasansky, Arch 384, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.
Books, Articles, Dissertations, Lectures
Adam, Laurie, Italian Renaissance Art, (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001)
Artistic Centres of the Italian Renaissance, Rome, Marcia B. Hall, ed., (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
Denker Nesselrath, Christiane, Bramante's Spiral Staircase, (Vatican City State: Edizioni Muzei Vaticani, 1997)
Hersey, George L., High Renaissance Art in St. Peter's and the Vatican: An Interpretive Guide, (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993)
Matthews Grieco, Sara F.; Johnson, Geraldine A., Picturing Women in Renaissance and Baroque Italy,
(Cambridge; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Stinger, Charles L., Renaissance in Rome, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985)
Partner, Peter, Renaissance Rome 1500-1559: A Portrait of a Society, (Berkeley : University of California Press, c1976)
Partner, Peter, The Pope's Men : the Papal Civil Service in the Renaissance , (Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1990)
Partner, Peter, The Lands of St. Peter; the Papal State in the Middle Ages and the Early Renaissance, ( Berkeley, University of California Press, 1972)
Partridge, Loren W., The Art of Renaissance Rome, 1400-1600, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996)
Partridge, Loren W., Michelangelo: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Rome , (New York: Braziller, 1996)
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Baroque Rome Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Baroque Architecture in Rome RomeArtlover.it, Roberto Piperno
Baroque Rome in the Etchings of Giuseppe Vasi RomeArtlover.it, Roberto Piperno
Garden History in Baroque Rome Gardenvisit.com
Memento Mori RomeArtlover.it, Roberto Piperno
New Rome The University of Virginia Library Digital Image Center in Charlottesville, Virginia
Show of Drawings Reveals Aesthetic Diversity: Rome's Baroque Art in a Stunning Light, International Herald-Tribune article by Souren Melikian, 3/6/1999
Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe 1600-1750 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, (Exhibition: 5/21/2000-10/9/2000)
Villa Aldobrandini on the Quirinal hill in Rome Website on the 17th century villa of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini in Rome.
Books, Articles, Dissertations, Lectures
Architecture
Blunt, Anthony, Borromini, (Harvard University Press, 1979)
Blunt, Anthony, Guide to Baroque Rome, (London; New York: Granada, 1982)
Blunt, Anthony, Merz, Jorg Martin, Pietro da Cortona and Roman Baroque Architecture, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 206)
Blunt, Anthony, Roman Baroque, (London : Pallas Athene Arts, 2001)
Borromini, Franciesco, Opera & Opus Architectonicum, (London: The Gregg Press, 1964) 2 volumes
Borsi, Franco, Bernini, (New York: Rizzoli, 1984)
Braham, Allan, Carlo Fontana: The Drawings at Windsor Castle, (London: Zwemmer, 1977)
Bussagli, Marco, ed., Rome: Art & Architecture, (Cologne: Konemann, 1999)
Connors, Joseph, Borromini and the Roman Oratory: Style and Society, (New York: Architectural History Foundation; Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, 1980)
Fagiolo, Marcello, Schezen, Roberto, Roman Gardens: Villas of the City, ( New York : Monacelli Press, 2001)
Habel, Dorothy Metzger, The Urban Development of Rome in the Age of Alexander VII, (New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002)
Hager, Hellmut, Scott, Susan C., Projects and Monuments in the Period of the Roman Baroque, (University Park: Penn State University Press, 1984)
Hendrix, John, Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures, (New York: Peter Lang, 2003)
Hendrix, John, The Relation between Architectural Forms and Philosophical Structures in the Work of Francesco Borromini in Seventeenth-Century Rome, (Lewiston , N.Y. : E. Mellen Press, 2002)
Hopkins, Andrew, Italian Architecture from Michelangelo to Borromini, (London: Thames and Hudson, 2002)
Kirwin, William Chandler, Fehl, Philipp P., Powers Matchless: the Pontificate of Urban VIII, the Baldachin, and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, (New York: P. Lang, 1997)
Krautheimer, Richard, The Rome of Alexander VII, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985)
Magnuson, Torgil, Rome in the Age of Bernini, (Stockholm, Sweden : Almquist & Wiksell International ; [Atlantic Highlands], N.J. : Humanities Press, 1982-present) Series on Roman art and architecture during the Baroque Era
Marder, T.A., Bernini and the Art of Architecture, (New York: Abbeville Press, 1998)
Marder, T.A., Bernini's Scala Regio at the Vatican Palace, (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
McPhee, Sarah, Bernini and the Bell Towers: Architecture and Politics at the Vatican, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002)
Millon, Henry A., Circa 1700: Architecture in Europe and the Americas, (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; New Haven, CT: Distributed by Yale University Press, 2005)
Millon, Henry A., The Triumph of the Baroque: Architecture in Europe , 1600-1750, (New York: Rizzoli, 1999)
Morrissey, Jake, Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini and the Rivalry that Transformed Rome, (New York: William Morrow, 2005)
Norberg-Schulz, Christian, Architecture: Meaning and Place: Selected Essays, (New York: Rizzoli, 1988) Contains the essay "Borromini and the Bohemian Baroque"
Portoghesi, Paolo, Roma Barocca: The History of an Architectonic Culture, (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1970)
Portoghesi, Paolo, Roma Barocca. Bernini, Borromini, Pietro da Cortona, (Rome: Electa, 2006; exhibition catalog, 6/15/2006-10/29/2006, Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome, Italy)
Portoghesi, Paolo, The Rome of Borromini: Architecture as Language, (New York: Braziller, 1968)
Rasula, Jed, "Sublime Facade : Borromini's Oratorio and the Presentation of Radical Exteriority," essay in Diaz Sanchez, Maria Eugenia, Dworkin, Craig, eds., Architectures of Poetry, (Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2004)
Simpson, M.S., "Carlo Fontana: Pupil, Partner, Principal, Preceptor," essay in Lukehart, Peter M., ed., The Artist's Workshop, (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1993)
Sinisgalli, Rocco, A History of the Perspective Scene from the Renaissance to the Baroque: Borromini in Four Dimensions, (Firenze: Cadmo, 2000)
Smith, Gil R., Architectural Diplomacy: Rome and Paris in the Late Baroque, (New York : Architectural History Foundation; Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press), 1993)
Steinberg, Leo, Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, A Study in Multiple Form and Architectural Symbolism, (New York: Garland Publishing, 1977)
Waddy, Patricia, Seventeenth-Century Roman Palaces: Use and the Art of the Plan, New York , N.Y. : Architectural History Foundation ; Cambridge : MIT Press, 1990)
Wittkower, Rudolf, Essays in the History of Architecture Presented to Rudolf Wittwower, (London: Pahiadon, 1967)
M.A. Thesis in Architecture: Silva, Jose Enrique, The Art of the Theatrical Fountain in the Italian Baroque: Rome and Her Surroundings, (Atlanta, GA: Georgia Tech University, 1987
Art
Avery, Charles, Bernini: Genius of the Baroque, (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1997)
Hibbard, Howard, Bernini, (Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin, 1965)
Lavin, Irving, Essays on Style and Meaning in the Art of Gianlorenzo Bernini, (London: Pindar Press, 2003)
Lavin, Irving, The Drawings of Gianlorenzo Bernini, (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1985)
Panofsky, Erwin, Tomb sculpture : Four Lectures on its Changing Aspects from Ancient Egypt to Bernini, (New York: H.N. Abrams, 1992)
Turner, Nicholas, Roman Baroque Drawings, Roman Baroque Drawings, c. 1620 to c. 1700, (London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Press, c1999) Exhibition at British Museum, c. 3/5/1999-4/18/1999
Weston-Lewis, Aidan, Effigies and Ecstasies: Roman Baroque Sculpture and Design in the Age of Bernini, (Wappingers Falls, NY: Antique Collectors' Club, 1998)
Wittkower, Rudolf, Gian Lorenzo Bernini : The Sculptor of the Roman Baroque, (Oxford: Phaidon, 1981)
Dissertation: Butler, David Loran, The Spada Chapel in Santa Maria in Vallicella, Rome : a Study of Late Baroque Patronage, Taste, and Style, (Saint Louis, MO: Washington University, 1991)
History
Kessel, Peter Van, Schulte Van Kessel, Elisja, Rome , Amsterdam: Two Growing Cities in Seventeenth-Century Europe, (Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 1997)
Mainstone, Madeleine, Mainstone, R.J., The Seventeenth Century, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981)
Rowland, Ingrid D. The Ecstatic Journey: Athanasius Kircher in Baroque Rome . (Chicago : University of Chicago Library, 2000)
Music
Music and Spectacle in Baroque Rome Barberini Patronage under Urban VIII, website on the book by Hammond, Frederick, (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994)
Online
Cosmopolitan Rome, Seydl, Jon L., (article: Eighteenth-Century Studies, 40:1, 2006, p. 157-162; available via Project Muse)
Paris and Rome Revolution and Empire, Summer 2006, Course taught by Prof. Raymond Jonas, Department of History, University of Washington.
Rioni: The Districts of Rome, Allan Ceen (Department of Architecture, Penn State university) and Jim Tice (Department of Architecture, University of Oregon). This site discusses Rome’s 14 eighteenth century regions first defined by the Nolli map.
Rome in the Footsteps of an XIIIth Century Traveller RomeArtlover.it, Roberto Piperno
Books, Articles, Dissertations, Lectures
Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century, edited by Edgar Peters Bowron and Joseph J. Rishel, (London : Merrell ; Philadelphia : In association with Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2000) Exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Museum of Fine Art, Houston, 2000.
Gross, Hans, Rome in the age of Enlightenment : The Post-Tridentine Syndrome and the Ancien Régime, (Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990)
Miller, Samuel J., Portugal and Rome c. 1748-1830: An Aspect of the Catholic Enlightenment, (Roma : Università Gregoriana, 1978)
Online
Contemporary Architecture in Rome Rome Art Lover.com
Online Maps
Image Resources
Founded in 1848, the Associated Press (AP) is the oldest and largest news organization in the world. The Archive includes AP photographs, audio sound bites, graphics, and text from over 160 years of history. Images may be reproduced in research papers, theses, and power point presentations.
CAMIO (Catalog of Art Museum Images Online) presents high-quality digital images, text and multimedia to document works of art from around the world. Containing about 90,000 artworks drawn from the collections of prominent museums, this online collection covers the creative output of world cultures from the prehistoric period to the present. A wide range of media are included: painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and the decorative arts.
The Index of Christian Art is an index to artworks produced in the western world from late antiquity up to A.D. 1400. Established as a card file at Princeton in 1917, the file has grown to be the largest archive of information on medieval art in existence. The internet database version contains over 20,000 work of art records which are accompanied by thousands of images in color and black/white. A wide range of media are represented, including manuscripts, metalwork, sculpture, painting, and glass. Extensive cataloging and classification data allow for detailed searching of subjects, themes, and concepts.
UW Libraries Cities and Buildings Database
UW College of Architecture and Urban Planning Visual Resources Collection
American Academy in Rome Library
Biblioteche di Roma (Rome City Library)
British School in Rome Library and Archive
Unione Romana Biblioteche Local Library Catalogs in Rome
American University of Rome, College Consortium for International Studies
Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (Duke University)
Notre Dame University, School of Architecture, Year in Rome
Penn State University, School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Sede di Roma
Temple University Rome Summer Session
FALL 2006
UW Studio Art
Ohio Dominican Humanities
RPI Architecture
WINTER 2007
UW Honors Program; Professors: Lisa Schultz <lisaschultz17@yahoo.com>, Danielle Pollack <forzadivolonta@yahoo.com>
UW Communications Department; Professors: Anthony Giffard <giffard@u.washington.edu>, Michael Henderson <mikh@u.washington.edu>
Catholic University Architecture
Roosevelt High School (Latin)
UW Classics Department; Professor: Alain Gowing <alain@u.washington.edu>
UW Art History Department; Professor: Margaret Laird <mlaird@u.washington.edu>
UW Italian Studies Department; Professor: Albert Sbragia <sbragia@u.washington.edu>
UW CHID Program; Professor: Douglass Merrell <dmerrell@u.washington.edu>
UW Minority Affairs Program; Professors: Jim Clauss <jjc@u.washington.edu>, Gabriel Gallardo <gabegms@u.washington.edu>
SUMMER 2007
UW Creative Writing Program; Professors: Rick Kenney <rk@u.washington.edu>, Kevin Craft <kevinj.craft@yahoo.com>
UW CHID Program; Professor: Douglass Merrell <dmerrell@u.washington.edu>
University of Oregon Architecture
University of Montana Architecture
University of Dayton Communication
Taft College Latin
EARLY FALL 2007
UW Visual Communication Design Program; Professor: Chris Ozubko <ozubko@u.washington.edu>
UW Honors Program; Professors: Shawn Wong <homebase@u.washington.edu>, Lisa Schultz <lisaschultz17@yahoo.com>
UW Law School, Society & Justice Program; Professors: Anita Ramasastry <arama@u.washington.edu>, Michael McCann <mwmccann@u.washington.edu>, Walter Walsh <wawa@u.washington.edu>
Fall 2007
UW Architecture [not sure who will be leading program yet; contact: Trina Deines <deines@u.washington.edu>]
UW Studio Art [not sure who will be leading program yet; contact: Jamie Walker <jwalk@u.washington.edu>]
Ohio Dominican Humanities [Bruce Gartner <gartnerb@ohiodominican.edu>]
RPI Architecture [Cinzia Abbate <cinzia.abbate@aevarchitetti.it>]
