Michelangelo: Recommended Resources

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General books on Christianity and art

Helen de Borchgrave, A Journey Into Christian Art (Fortress Press, 1999)
John Drury, Painting the Word: Christian Pictures and their Meanings (Yale University Press, 1999)
Peter and Linda Murray, The Oxford Companion to Christian Art and Architecture (Oxford University Press, 1998)

The Renaissance

Margaret Aston, ed., The Panorama of the Renaissance (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1996)
John Dillenberger, Images and Relics: Theological Perceptions and Visual Images in Sixteenth-Century Europe (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Frederick Hartt, History of Italian Renaissance Art, 4th edition (Prentice Hall and Abrams, 1994)
Heidi J. Hornik and Mikeal C. Parsons, Illuminating Luke: The Infancy Narrative in Italian Renaissance Painting (Trinity Press International, 2003) and Illuminating Luke: The Public Ministry of Christ (T & T Clark, 2005)
John T. Paoletti and Gary M. Radke, Art in Renaissance Italy (Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1997)
Timothy Verdon and John Henderson, ed., Christianity and the Renaissance (Syracuse University Press, 1990)

Michelangelo

Ascanio Condivi, The Life of Michelangelo, translated by Alice Sedgwick Wohl (Louisiana State University Press, 1976)
James Beck, The Three Worlds of Michelangelo (W. W. Norton & Co., 1999)
John W. Dixon, Jr., The Christ of Michelangelo (Scholars Press, 1994)
John W. Dixon, Jr., Nature and Grace in Art (University of North Carolina Press, 1964)
Ross King, Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling (Walker & Company, 2003)
Michelangelo, Complete Poems and Selected Letters, translated by Creighton Gilbert, edited by Robert N. Linscott (Princeton University Press, 1980)
Linda Murray, Michelangelo (Oxford, 1980)
Alexander Nagel, Michelangelo and the Reform of Art (Cambridge, 2000)
Giorgio Vasari, The Lives of the Artists, translated by Julia Conaway Bondanella and Peter Bondanella (Oxford, 1991)
William E. Wallace, Michelangelo: The Complete Sculpture, Painting, Architecture (Hugh Latimer Levin Associates, Inc., 1998)

Vittoria Colonna

Roland H. Bainton, "Vittoria Colonna" in Women of the Reformation in Germany and Italy (Augsburg, 1971)
Vittoria Colonna, Sonnets for Michelangelo: A Bilingual Edition, edited and translated by Abigail Brundin (University of Chicago Press, 2003)

Other artists in the "Gallery"

Bruce Cole, Masaccio and the Art of Early Renaissance Florence (Indiana University Press, 1980)
Georges Didi-Huberman, Fra Angelico, translated by Jane Marie Todd (University of Chicago Press, 1995)
Ronald Lightbown, Botticelli: Life and Work (Abbeville Press, 1989)
Roger Whiting, Leonardo: A Portrait of the Renaissance Man (Wellfleet Press, 1992)
James H. Beck, Raphael: The Stanza della Segnatura (Braziller, 1993)

The historical context

Craig D. Atwood, Always Reforming: A History of Christianity Since 1300 (Mercer University Press, 2001)
Roland H. Bainton, The Travail of Religious Liberty (Harper & Brothers, 1951)
Elisabeth G. Gleason, Reform Thought in Sixteenth-Century Italy (Scholars Press, 1981)
Joseph H. Lynch, The Medieval Church: A Brief History (Longman, 1992)
John W. O'Malley, "The Renaissance Papacy 1420-1565" in The Papacy, edited by Paul Johnson (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997)
Bard Thompson, Humanists and Reformers: A History of the Renaissance and Reformation (Eerdmans, 1997)

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