UWAUP Library Links for Rome Center Students
Connect to UW Online Resources from Rome
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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
- Hellenistic-Roman Medicine
- 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
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Books, Articles, Dissertations, Lectures
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Books, Articles, Dissertations, Lectures
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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)
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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.
