Studium UrbisVisual Studies Resources
 
 
Interior of the Pantheon, Oil on Canvas by G. P. Pannini, c. 1750, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Samuel H. Kress Collection.


Engraving after Ligorio, Varro's Aviary.
 

Visual Studies Resources (bibliography in progress):
Information compiled by M. LaFoe from studio/seminar teachings, updated 11/2001

Aalto, Alvar (1898-1976). The architectural drawings of Alvar Aalto, 1917-1939: in eleven volumes. Prepared by the Alvar Aalto Archive in collaboration with the Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki, and the Alvar Aalto Museum, Jyvaskyla. New York: Garland Publishers, 1994.

Adams, Nicolas, ed. Antonia da Sangallo (1484-1546): The architectural drawings of Antonio da Sangallo the younger and his circle. Cambridge, MA. and New York: MIT Press with the Architectural History Foundation, 1994.

Albers, Josef. Interaction of Color. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1975.

Alberti, Leon Battista. On Painting. Translated by Cecil Grayson. New York and London: Penguin Books, 1991.

Architecture and Its Image: Four Centuries of Architectural Representation. Montreal: Centre Canadien d'Architecture, 1989.

Arnheim, Rudolf. Art and Visual Perception. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1974; reprint of 1954.

Arnheim, Rudolph. Visual Thinking. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1969.

Benjamin, Walter. "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction." In Illuminations. Translated by Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken Books, 1968. 217-51.

Berger, John. Ways of Seeing. New York and London: Penguin Books, 1977.

Berry, William A. Drawing the Human Form: A Guide to Drawing from Life. New York: Prentise Hall Press, 1977.

Ching, Francis. Architecture: Form, Space & Order. New York and London: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1979.

 

Christopher, Alexander. Notes on the Synthesis of Form. 1971, reprint of 1964.

Cole, Bruce. The Renaissance Artist at Work: From Pisano to Titian. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1983.

Bucher, Francois. Architector: The Lodge Books and Sketchbooks of Medieval Architects. Vol. I. New York: Abaris Books, Inc., 1979. (See Chapter on Villard de Honnecourt and Master WG.)

Camfield, William A. "Juan Gris and the Golden Section." The Art Bulletin. (March 1965): 128-34.

Dubery, Fred and John Willats. Perspective and Other Drawing Systems. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983, reprint of 1972. (Chapters 3 & 4 on oblique projection, isometric projection, and the development of perspective.)

Durer, Albrecht (1471-1528). The Complete Engravings, etchings, and drypoints of Albrecht Durer. Ed. Walter L. Strauss. New York: Dover Publications, 1972.

Falda, Giovanni Battista (1640-78). Li giardini di Roma, disegnate da Giovanni Battista Falda. Nordlingen: Uhl, 1994. (Fascimile of the original 1670 series of architectural and landscape views.)

Ferriss, Hugh. "Three Stages of a Rendering." Pencil Points 2 (January 1921): 6-9.

Filippi, Elena. Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574): inventio urbis. Milano: Berenice, 1990.

Fiorani, Francesca. "The Theory of Shadow Projection and Aerial Perspective: Leonardo, Desargues, and Bosse," in Desargues en son temps, eds. J. Dhombres and J. Sakarovitch, 267-282. Paris: Librarie Scientifique A. Blanchard, 1994.

Frangenberg, Thomas. "The Image and the Moving Eye." Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 49 (1986): 150-71.

Gage, John. Colour and Culture. London: Thames and Hudson, 1993.

Herbert, Robert L., ed. Modern Artists on Art. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1964.

Hiroshige, Ando (1797-1858). One Hundred Views of Edo. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1989.

Hockney, David and Charles M. Falco. "Optical Insights into Renaissance Art." Optics and Photonics News 11.7 (July 2000): 52-59. (See also the Weschler, Lawrence article)

Huxtable, Ada Louise. "Architectural Drawings." In Architecture Anyone? New York: Random House, 1986. 272-284.

Inoue, Mitsuo. Space in Japanese architecture. 1 st ed. Translated by Hiroshi Watanabe. New York: Weatherhill, 1985.

Itten, Johannes. The Elements of Color. Translated by Ernst Van Hagen. New York and London: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1970.

Kasprisin, Ron and James Pettinari. Visual Thinking for Architects and Designers: Visualizing Context in Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995.

Kemp, Martin. Geometrical Perspective from Brunelleschi to Desargues: A Pictorial Means or An Intellectual End? From the Proceedings of the British Academy, London, Vol. LXX. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984.

Kemp, Martin. "Science, Non-Science, and Nonsense: The Interpretation of Brunelleschi's Perspective." Art History I (1978): 134-61.

Kepes, G., ed. Module Proportion Symmetry Rhythm. New York: George Braziller, 1966.

Lavin, Marilyn Aronberg. "Closing the circle on Piero della Francesca (geometry, computers, and art studies)." Smithsonian. 23.9 (December 1992): 122-34.

Little, A. M. G. "Perspective and (Hellenistic) Scene Painting." The Art Bulletin. 19.4 (December 1937):487-95.

Moholy-Nagy, Lazlo. Vision in Motion. Paul Theobald & Co., 1965.

Noguchi, Isamu. Isamu Noguchi: A Sculptor's World. Foreward by R. Buckminster Fuller. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1968.

Nuti, L. "The Perspective Plan in the Sixteenth Century: The Invention of a Representational Language." The Art Bulletin 76.1 (1994): 105-28.

Panofsky, Erwin. Perspective as Symbolic Form. New York: Zone Books, 1991. ( See sections I-IV, pages 27-72.)

Rasmusssen, Steen Eiler. Experiencing Architecture. Campbridge, MA.: The MIT Press, 1959.

Ruskin, John. "On Composition." The Elements of Drawing. New York: Dover Publications. 161-211.

Ruskin, John. The Laws of Fésole: Principles of Drawing and Painting from the Tuscan Masters. New York: Allworth Press, 1996.

Summerson, John. "Viollet-le-Duc and the Rational Point of View." In Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays. New York and London: W. W. Norton & Co., 1963. 135-58.

Tange, Kenzo and Yasuhiro Ishimoto. Katsura Villa: Tradition and Creation in Japanese Architecture (& Photography). New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1972.

Vero, Radu. Understanding Perspective. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1980.

Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel. "Study of Proportions." In Discourses on Architecture. Translated by Henry Van Brunt. Boston: James R. Osgood and Co., 1875. 409-37.

Vredeman de Vries, Jan. Perspective. New York: Dover Publications, 1968.

Weschler, Lawrence. "The Looking Glass: How did the Old Masters draw so well?" The New Yorker (January 31, 2000): 65-75. (Presents theory of drawing by David Hockney)

Westerbeck, Colin. Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities. 1 st edition. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1999. (Color wood block prints - spatial relationships)

Wheelock Jr., Arthur K. Vermeer (1632-75): the complete works. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.

Wilton-Ely, John. Giovanni Battista Piranesi: The Complete Etchings. 2 vols. San Francisco: Alan Wofsy, 1994.




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