FINE ARTS A

A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.

Fine Arts A will be given every year.

SУLгΡ.АВus. A survey of the Western tradition in Art up to the present day, with an introduction on Pre-Hellenic Art.

Students are required to submit written work.

Booxs. The following is a basic list. Further bibliographies will be supplied throughout the year. Students are recommended ta buy the books marked with an

asterisk. .

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading:

*Gombrich, E. H. J.—The Story of Art. (Phaidon.)

or *Robb, D. M., and Garrison, J. J. Art in the Western World. (Harper.) (b) Prescribed text-books:

Holt, E. G.—Literary Sources of Art History. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1947.) Goldwater, R., and Treves, M. Artists on Art. (Pantheon Books.)

*Wölfflin, H. Principles of Art History.

Panofsky, E.—Studies in Iconology. (The introductory chapter.) (0.U.P., 1939.)

Fry, R.—Last Lectures.

Clark, K.-The Nude. (Murray, 1956.)

*Clark, K.—Landscape into Art. (Pelican.)

*Pevsner, N. An Outline of European Architecture. (Pelican.) Adam, L.—Primitive Art. (Pelican.)

Beazley, J D., and Ashmole, B.—Greek Sculpture and Painting.

Мålе, E.—Religious Art. (Abridged.)

*Berenson, B.—The Italian Painters of the Renaissance. (0.U.P. Phaidon.) Giedion, S.—Space, Time and Architecture. (Harvard Univ. Press.)

*Read, H. Art Now. (Pelican.) Kleе, P: On Modern Art. (Faber.)

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(c) Recommended for reference:

Proрylaеn Kunstgesch.ichte series (for illustration).

Lange, K., and Hirmer, M. Egypt. (Phaidon.)

Frankfort, H.—The Art of the Ancient Orient. (Pelican History of Art.)

*Frankfort, H. Before Philosophy. (Pelican.)

Trendall, A. D. Handbook to the Nicholson Museum, University of Sydney.

(Univ. of Sydney, 2nd ed., 1948.)

Richter, G. M. A.—The Sculpture and Sculptors of the Greeks. (Yale Univ.

Press.)

Richter, G.

M.

A. Archaic Greek Art.

Robertson, D. S: Greek and Roman Architecture. (2nd ed., 1943.) Lawrence, A. W.—Greek Architecture. (Pelican History of Art.) Pfuhl, E. Masterpieces of Greek Painting and Drawing.

Bieber, M.—The Sculpture of the Hellenistic Age.

Strong, Е.—Roman Art.

Maiuri, A.—Roman Painting. (Skira.)

*Rice, Talbot—Bysantine Art. (Pelican.)

links, R.—Carolingian Art. (Sidgwick and Jackson, 1935.) Morey, C. R.—Medieval Art. (Norton.)

Summerson, J. Heavenly Mansions. (Cresset Press.)

*Lavedan, P. French Architecture. (Pelican.) Gould, C.—Italian Renaissance Painting. (Phaidon.) Wölfflin, H.—Classic Art. (Phaidon.)

Dupont, J. From Caravaggio to Vermeer. (Skira, 1951.)

Steegmaп, J.—Consort of Taste, 1830-1870. (Sidgwick and Jackson.) Venturi, L.—Inmpressionisаβn and Symbolism.

Rewald, J.-History of Impressionism. (New York, Museum of Modern Art.) Rewald, J.History of Post-impressionism.. (New York, Museum of Modern

Art.)

Gauss, C. E. Aesthetic Theories of French Artists. (O.U.P.) Pevsner, N.—Pioneers of the Modern Movement. (Faber.)

Painting and Sculpturе in the Museum of Modern Art. (New York, Museum of Modern Art.)

Wright, F. L.—Genius and the Mobocracy. (Duell, Sloan and Pearce), or Autobiography.

Le Corbusier—Towards a New Architecture. (Payson and Clark.) Gropius, W--The New Architecture and the Bauhaus. (1935.) Smith, B.-Place, Taste and Tradition. (Ure Smith.)

Boyd, R—Australia's Hone. (Melbourne Univ. Press, 1952.)

Herman, 1.—The Early Australian Architects. (Angus & Robertson. ) For a study of the Modern Movement the publications of the New York City

Museum of Modern Art and the series Documents of Modern. Art (Wittenborn Schultz) will be most valuable.

EXAMINATION. Two 3-hour papers.

FINE ARTS ß

A course of two lectures per week, with one tutorial class, throughout the year.

Fine Arts B will be given in 1958 and alternate years.

SУLLABus. A study of the art of the Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy, with an introduction on medieval art and an epilogue on Baroque and Classicism in the 17th century. The tutorial class will be mainly given to the study of primary source material.

Students are required to submit written work.

Воокs. The following is only a basic list. Further references, especially to illustrative material, will be supplied throughout the year. Students are recom- mended to buy the books marked with an asterisk.

(a) Recommended for preliminary reading : Ovid—Metan norphoses. (Pelican or any other edition.)

*Huizinga, J.—The Waning of the Middle Ages. (Pelican.)

*Waddell, H.—The Wandering Scholars. (Pelican.)

Panofsky,

E.—Studies

in Iconology. (The introductory chapter.) (0.U.P, 1939.)

Morey, C.

R. Medieval

Art. (Norton, 1942.) Мalе, E.—Religious Art. (Abridged translation.)

(b) Prescribed text-books:

Primary sources

*Holt, E.

G.—Literary

Sources of Art History. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1947.) Panofsky,

E. Abbot

Suger on the Abbey Church of S. Denis. (Princeton

Univ. Press, 1946.)

*Alberti, L B.—On Painting. (ed. J. R. Spencer, 1956, or in Proceedings of the British Academy, 1944, intro. by Wittkower.)

*Alberti, L. B.—Ten Books on Architecture. (ed. J. Rykwert, Tiranti, 1955.)

*Vasari,

G.—Lives

of the most eminent painters, sculptors and architects.

(Selected lives.) (Everyman Nos. 784-787.)

Castiglione—The Courtier. (Everyman or any other edition.) Leonardo da Vinci—The Paragone. (ed. Richter, O.U.P,)

Palladio—Four Books on Architecture. (trans. G. Leoni, London, 1742.) Cellini,

B. Autobiography.

(Pelican, Phaidon or Everyman.)

*Cassirer, E., Kristeller and Rendall—The J?enaissance Philosophy of Man.

(Phoenix Books, 4th impr., 1956.) Secondary sources

*Burckhardt, J.—The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy. (Phaidon.) Se nec, J—The Survival of the Ancient Gods. (Bollingen Series.) Simsón, O. von—The Gothic Cathedral. (Bollingen Series.) Clark,

K.—The

Nude. (Murray, 1956.)

*Berenson,

B.—Italian

Painters of the Renaissance. (O.U.P. or Phaidon.)

*Wölfflin,

H.—Classic

Art. (Phaidon.)

*Wölfflin,

1.—Principles

of Art History.

Panofsky,

E.—Studies

in Iconology. (The full text.) (O.U.P., 1939.) .

*Panofsky,

E.—Meaning

in. the Visual Arts. (Doubleday, a cheap paper- bound edition.)

Antal,

F.-The

Social Background of Florentine Painting.

Wittkower, R.—Architectural Principles in the Age of Humanism. (Warburg

& Courtauld Institutes, and reprint by Tiranti.)

*Blunt,

A. Artistic

Theory in Italy, 1450-1600. (O.U.P., reprint 1956.) Friedlãender,- M.

J. From

Van. Eyck to Breughel. (Phaidon, 1956.) Mahon,

D.—Studies

in Seicento Art and Theory. (Studies of the Warburg

Institute, Vol. 16, 1947.)

(c) Recommended for reference:

Primary Sources

The Little Flowers of St. Francis. (Everyman.)

Villard de Honnecourt—The Sketchbook. (London, 1859, ed. R. Willis.) Cennino Cennini—The Craftsman's Handbook.

Machiavelli,

N. Florentine

history.

Leonardo da Vinci—The Literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci. (Commented edition by J. P. and I. A. Richter, O.U.P., or the edition by E. McCurdy.) Leonardo da

Vinci—Treatise

on Painting. (Translated and annotated by. A. P.

McMahon, Princeton, 1957.)

Holroyd,

C.—Michelangelo

Buonarotti. (Contains translations of the Life by Condivi and of the dialogues of Francisco d'011anda.)

*Michelangelo—The Sonnets. (Translated by J. Symonds.) Serlio,

S.—The

Entire Works on Architecture. (London, 1611.) Lomazzo, G. P.—Treatise on the Art of Painting. (1584.)

For 17th century sources in translation see Holt—Literary Sources of Art History.

Rubens, P.

P.—The

Letters of Peter Paul Rubens. (ed. R. S. McGurn, 1956.) Secondary sources

Wickhoff,

F.—Roman

Art.

Morey, C.

R. Early

Christian Art. (Princeton, 1953.) Swift,

E.—Roman

Sources of Christian Art.

Demos,

O. Byzantine

Mosaic Decoration. (Kegan Paul.)

• Hinks,

R.—Carolingian

Art. (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1935.)

Adhémar, J. Influences antiques dans l'art du inoyen-dge français. (Studies of the Warburg Institute, Vol. 7.)

Focillon, H. Art d'occident.

Evans, Joan—Art in Medieval France, 987-1498. (0.U.P., 1948.) Panofsky, E. Early Netherlandish Painting. (Harvard U.P., 1953.)

Friedlaender, M. J.—Die altnicderldndisсhe Malerei. (For illustrative refer- ence.)

Venturi, A.—Storiá dell'arte italiana.

Van Marie, R.—The development of the Italian Schools of Painting.

Berenson, B.—Italian Paintings of the Renaissance. (0.U.P. or Phaidon.) Pope-Hennessy, J.-Italian Gothic Sculpture. (Phaidon.)

Meiss, M. L. Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death. (Prince- ton Univ. Press, 1951.)

Friedlaender, W. Mannerism in Italian Painting. (Columbia Univ. Press, 1957.)

Benesch, O.—The Art of the Renaissance in Northern Europe. (Harvard.) Hauser,

A. —A

Social History of Art. (The chapter on Mannerism.) Schlosser, J. von—La letteratura artistica. (Schroll, 1956.)

Fokker, T. 1.—Roman Baroque Art. (O.U.P., 1938.) Riegl, A.—Barockkunst in Rom. (Schroll, 1923.) Waterhouse, E.—Roman Baroque Painting.

Friedlaender, W.—Cargavaggio Studies. (Princeton Univ. Press, 1955.) Blunt, A. Art and Architecture in France, 1500-1700. (Pelican History of

Art.) .

Bode, W.—Great Masters of Dutch and Flemish Painting.

Sli.ve, S.— Rembrandt and his Critics. (Nijhoff, 1954.) ЕxАЫТНАІЇoN. Two 3-hour papers.