Anderson - Renaissance architecture

Renaissance Architecture

Oxford History of Art

Christy Anderson is an architectural historian with a special interest in the buildings of Renaissance and Baroque Europe. The author of Inigo Jones and the Classical Tradition (2006), she has taught at Yale University, the Courtauld Institute, and MIT, and is currently an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto.

Titles in the Oxford History of Art series are up-to-date, fully illustrated introductions to a wide variety of subjects written by leading experts in their field. They will appear regularly, building into an interlocking and comprehensive series. In the list below, published titles appear in bold.

WESTERN ART

Archaic and Classical Greek Art

Robin Osborne

Classical Art
From Greece to Rome

Mary Beard & John Henderson

Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph

Jas Elsner

Early Medieval Art

Lawrence Nees

Medieval Art

Veronica Sekules

Art in Renaissance Italy

Evelyn Welch

Northern Renaissance Art

Susie Nash

Art in Europe 17001830

Matthew Craske

Modern Art 18511929

Richard Brettell

After Modern Art 19452000

David Hopkins

WESTERN ARCHITECTURE

Roman Architecture
Janet Delaine

Early Medieval Architecture

Roger Stalley

Medieval Architecture

Nicola Coldstream

Renaissance Architecture

Christy Anderson

Baroque and Rococo
Architecture
Hilary Ballon

European Architecture 17501890

Barry Bergdoll

Modern Architecture

Alan Colquhoun

Contemporary
Architecture
Anthony Vidler

Architecture in the United States

Dell Upton

WORLD ART

Aegean Art and Architecture

Donald Preziosi & Louise Hitchcock

Early Art and Architecture of Africa

Peter Garlake

African-American Art

Sharon F. Patton

Nineteenth-Century
American Art

Barbara Groseclose

Twentieth-Century
American Art

Erika Doss

Australian Art

Andrew Sayers

Byzantine Art

Robin Cormack

Art in China

Craig Clunas

East European Art

Jeremy Howard

Indian Art

Partha Mitter

Islamic Art

Irene Bierman

Japanese Art

Karen Brock

Native North American Art

Janet Berlo & Ruth Phillips

The Pacific Arts of Polynesia and Micronesia

Adrienne L. Kaeppler

WESTERN DESIGN

Twentieth-Century Design

Jonathan Woodham

Design in the USA

Jeffrey L.Meikle

Fashion

Christopher Breward

PHOTOGRAPHY

The Photograph

Graham Clarke

American Photography

Miles Orvell

WESTERN SCULPTURE

Sculpture 19001945

Penelope Curtis

Sculpture Since 1945

Andrew Causey

THEMES AND GENRES

Landscape and Western Art

Malcolm Andrews

Portraiture

Shearer West

Eroticism and Art

Alyce Mahon

Beauty and Art

Elizabeth Prettejohn

REFERENCE BOOKS

The Art of Art History: A Critical Anthology

Donald Preziosi (ed.)

Oxford History of Art

Christy Anderson

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The first idea for this book seemed straightforward enough: a study that embraced Renaissance architecture in all its diversity and wonder. Those good intentions, however, faced the reality of difficult choices and an ocean of literature on each national tradition. Many friends and colleagues came to my aid.

A number of students have helped with the project: Ellen Chang, Alexis Cohen, H. G. Masters, Katherine Sims, Kimberley Skelton, and Christopher Worme. They sorted slides (back in the day), scanned images (more recently), found bibliography, tracked down images, read sections, and were the audience I always had in mind. For one important summer Jacob Roscoe ably assisted with the research on French and Flemish architecture. Over the years I developed several courses out of this material at Yale University and the University of Toronto. I am grateful to all of my students for their interest and excellent ideas.