Etruscan and Roman Art: A Bibliography
By STAN PARCHIN
July 23, 2010
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View of the Leon Levy and Shelby White Court (2007). The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Roman, Flavian (69-98 A.D.). Statue of the Youthful Hercules. Marble. H. 246.9 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. |
Octavius (63-14 B.C.), Julius Caesar's successor and Rome's first emperor, reportedly said, "I found Rome a city of bricks and I left it a city of marble." This pompous remark aptly characterizes the history of ancient Italian art and architecture from the early days of the Etruscans through the rise and decline of classical Roman civilization. The titles listed here are written by art historians, curators and other scholars. Most of these publications can be purchased at bookstores and through the Internet.
I. Etruscan Art
General
Brendel, Otto J. Etruscan Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.
Richardson, Emeline. The Etruscans: Their Art and Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Sprenger, Maja, Gilda Bartolini and Max Hirmer. The Etruscans: Their History, Art, and Architecture. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
Special Exhibition
Warden, P. Gregory, et al. From the Temple and the Tomb: Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany (exh. cat.). Dallas: Meadows Museum, Southern Methodist University, 2009.
II. Roman Art
General
D'Ambra, Eve. Roman Art. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Elsner, Jas. Art and the Roman Viewer: The Transformation of Art from the Pagan World to Christianity. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Kleiner, Fred S. A History of Roman Art. New York: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006.
Pollitt, Jerome J. The Art of Rome, 753 B.C.-A.D. 337 (rev. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
Ramage, Nancy H. and Andrew Ramage. Roman Art: Romulus to Constantine. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1991.
Strong, Donald and Roger Ling. Roman Art (2nd rev. ed.). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988.
Walker, Susan. Roman Art. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1991.
Painting
Ling, Roger. Roman Painting. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Sculpture
Kleiner, Diana E.E. Roman Sculpture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992.
Walker, Susan. Memorials to the Roman Dead. London: British Museum Press, 1985.
Architecture
Sear, Frank. Roman Architecture (rev. ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1989.
Ward-Perkins, John B. Roman Architecture. New York: Electa/Rizzoli, 1988.
Art and Culture
Bergmann, Bettina and Christina Kondoleon (eds.), et al. The Art of Ancient Spectacle. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2000.
Clarke, John R. Looking at Lovemaking: Constructions of Sexuality in Roman Art, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.
D'Ambra, Eve. Roman Women. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Sebesta, Judith Lynn and Larissa Bonfante. The World of Roman Costume. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1988.
Pompeii
Guzzo, Pier Giovanni (ed.), et al. Pompeii: Stories from an Eruption (exh. cat.). Milan: Electa, 2005.
Mattusch, Carol C. (ed.), et al. Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture around the Bay of Naples (exh. cat.). New York: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Richardson, Lawrence, Jr. Pompeii: An Architectural History. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1988.
Ward-Perkins, John and Amanda Claridge, et al. Pompeii A.D. 79 (exh. cat.). Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1978.
Important Collections
Giroire, Cécile, Daniel Roger, et al. Roman Art from the Louvre (exh. cat.). New York: American Federation of Arts and Hudson Hills Press, 2007.
Picón, Carlos A., et al. Art of the Classical World in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2007.
Raggio, Olga, et al. The Vatican Collections: The Papacy and Art (exh. cat.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983.
True, Marion, et al. Guide to the Getty Villa. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust, 2005.
Special Exhibitions
Kleiner, Diana E.E. and Susan B. Matheson. I Claudia: Women in Ancient Rome (exh. cat.). Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Opper, Thorsten. Hadrian: Empire and Conflict (exh. cat.). Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008.
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