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still valuable, especially his essays collected in The Art of Humanism (London, 1983), his Leonardo da Vinci (revised ed., London, 1989), and his Leonardo Drawings at Windsor Castle (two vols., Cambridge, 1935). E. H. Gombrich’s essays are collected in Gombrich on the Renaissance (three vols., London, 1993). I also used C. F. Black et al., Cultural Atlas of the Renaissance (New York, 1993); the Einaudi History of Italian Art (two vols., trans., Cambridge, 1994); Denis Hay, The Italian Renaissance in its Historical Background (Cambridge, 1979); John White, Art and Architecture in Italy, 1250–1400 (New Haven, Conn., 1993); J. Shearman, Early Italian Pictures in the Royal Collection (Cambridge, 1983); M. Levey, Later Italian Pictures in the Royal Collection (Cambridge, 1991); E. Welch, Art and Society in Italy, 1350–1500 (Oxford, 1997); M. Davies and D. Gordon, The Early Italian Schools Before 1400 (London, 1998); S. J. Freedberg, Painting in Italy 1500–1600 (London, 1993); N. Huse and W. Wolten, Art of Renaissance Venice (New York, 1993); A. Chastel, History of French Art: The Renaissance (two vols., trans., London, 1973); J. Dunkerton et al., Giotto to Dürer: Early Renaissance Painting in the National Gallery (London, 1991); various writings by John Pope-Hennessy, including Italian High Renaissance and Baroque Sculpture (ed., London, 1996), Essays on Italian Sculpture (London, 1968), Italian Gothic Sculpture (London, 1955) and The Portrait in the Renaissance (Oxford, 1966). Also important is E. Panofsky, Renaissance and Renaissances in Western Art (two vols., Stockholm, 1960).

More detailed studies include: A. J. Lemaître and E. Lessing, Florence and the Renaissance: The Quattrocento (Paris, 1993); G. Brucker, Florence: The Golden Age (Berkeley, 1998); P. L. Rubin and A. Wright, Renaissance Florence: The Art of the 1470s (London, 1999); A. Paolucci, The Origins of Renaissance Art: The Baptistry Doors, Florence (trans., New York, 1996); D. Norman (ed.), Siena, Florence and Padua: Art, Society and Religion 1280–1400 (two vols., London, 1995); A. M. Romanini et al., Assisi: The Frescoes in the Basilica of St. Francis (trans., New York, 1999); John White, The Birth and Rebirth of Pictorial Space (London, 1967); S. J. Freedberg, Painting of the High Renaissance in Rome and Florence (two vols., rev. ed., New York, 1989); and Emile Mâle, Religious Art in France: The Late Middle Ages (trans., Princeton, 1986).

Studies of individuals and specific works of art include: B. A. Bennett and D. G. Wilkins, Donatello (Oxford, 1984); James Beck, Jacopo della Quercia (two vols., New York, 1991); John Pope-Hennessy, Cellini (New York, 1985); C. Avery and D. Finn, Giambologna (Oxford, 1987); Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings (London, 1993); D. Howard, Jacopo Sansovino: Architecture and Patronage in Renaissance Venice (London, 1987); G. Kreytenberg, Orcagna’s Tabernacle in Or San Michele, Florence (New York, 1994); Colin Eisler, Jacopo Bellini: Complete Paintings and Drawings (New York, 1989); S. Fermor, Piero di Cosimo (London, 1993); M. Levey and G. Mandel, Complete Paintings of Botticelli (London, 1985); R. Lightbown, Piero della Francesca (New York, 1992); F. and S. Borsi, Paolo Uccello (trans., London, 1994); R. Goffen, Giovanni Bellini (New Haven, Conn., 1989); V. Sgarbi, Carpaccio (trans., New York, 1995); J. Martineau (ed.), Andrea Mantegna (London, 1992); M. Cardaro (ed.), Mantegna’s Camera degli Sposi (Milan, 1993); C. Acidini Luchinat (ed.), Gozzoli’s Chapel of the Magi (London, 1993); J. A. Becherer (ed.), Pietro Perugino (New York, 1997); C. Fischer, Fra Bartolommeo (Rotterdam, 1992); M. Clayton, Raphael and His Studio (London, 1999); C. Pedretti, Raphael: His Life and Work (Florence, 1989); A. E. Oppé, Raphael (London, 1970); L. D. and H. S. Ettlinger, Raphael (Oxford, 1987); J. Meyer zur Capellen, Raphael in Florence (London, 1996); Michelangelo the Sculptor (exhibition catalog, Montreal, 1992); M. Hirst and J. Dunkerton, The Young Michelangelo (London, 1994); V. Manici, Michelangelo the Painter (New York, 1985);