Sources are listed in the order that they appear in each article.
“Help! My parents don’t want me to major in art history!” – November 16, 2014.
- Caravaggista.com. Q&A: How Important is it to Get An Art History Degree From A Highly-ranked College? June 28, 2014.
- Rosenberg, Charles M. Career Alternatives for Art Historians. Last Accessed February 8, 2015.
- Caravaggista.com. Applying to Graduate School in Art History. November, 2015.
- Martin, Amy. “What Graduate School Has Taught Me So Far,” Caravaggista.com. December 20, 2012.
- Kelsky, Karen. “How to Build Your CV,” Chronicle Vitae. October 7, 2014.
- Schawbel, Dan. “Liberal Arts Majors are Screwed,” Business Insider. May 20, 2014.
- Rosenbloom, Stephanie. “The Art of Slowing Down in a Museum,” The New York Times. October 9, 2014.
- Kisida, Brian, Jay P. Greene, and Daniel H. Bowen. “Art Makes You Smart,” The New York Times. November 23, 2013.
- Martin, Amy. “The Value of my UCLA Degree,” Caravaggista.com. June 3, 2011.
- Kennicott, Philip. “How to view art: Be dead serious about it, but don’t expect too much,” The Washington Post. October 4, 2014.
Caravaggio’s Madonna of the Rosary (with video by Amor Sciendi). – August 19, 2013.
- Winston-Allen, Anne. Stories of the Rose: The Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997.
- Friedlaender, Walter. Caravaggio Studies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.
- Hibbard, Howard. Caravaggio. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.
- Langdon, Helen. Caravaggio: A Life. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999.
- Mitchell, Nathan D. The Mystery of the Rosary: Marian Devotion and the Reinvention of Catholicism. New York: New York University Press, 2009.
A Quiet Holiness: Caravaggio’s Madonna di Loreto. – August 11, 2013
- Friedlaender, Walter. Caravaggio Studies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.
- Hibbard, Howard. Caravaggio. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1983.
- Langdon, Helen. Caravaggio: A Life. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1999.
Salome, the femme fatale. – March 19, 2013
- Mark’s version of John the Baptist’s beheading was used for this post. See: Mark 6:14-29 (ESV)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art: Henri Regnault, Salome (1870). Explore the painting in detail at the Met’s website.
- Related post: “Dancing Seductress: Salome” – November 18, 2011.
Art History in the Digital Age. – March 7, 2013
- Baca, Murtha, Susan Edwards, and Anne Helmreich. ”Rethinking Art History,” recording of live Google+ Hangout, March 4, 2013.
- Baca, Murtha. “Rethinking Art History,” The Getty Iris, March 4, 2013.
- Ortega, Nuria Rodríguez. ”It’s Time to Rethink and Expand Art History for the Digital Age,” The Getty Iris, March 5, 2013.
- Zurich, Diane. “Transitioning to a Digital World: Art History, Its Research Centers, and Digital Scholarship,” Kress Foundation, 2012.
- Niyazi, Hasan. “The Moment of Digital Art History?,” 3 Pipe Problem. December 2012. Last accessed March 7, 2013.
Caravaggio’s Bodies & Shadows at LACMA. – February 8, 2013
- LACMA, Bodies & Shadows: Caravaggio and His Legacy (November 11, 2012 – February 10, 2013), and the accompanying exhibition catalogue, especially the entries by J. Patrice Marandel and Gianni Papi.
- Christiansen, Keith. “Caravaggio and L’esempio davanti del naturale,” The Art Bulletin 68 (1986): 421-445.
Skepticism Surrounding Caravaggio Discovery. – July 6, 2012
- Squires, Nick. “Italian Art Historians ‘find 100 Caravaggio paintings,'” The Telegraph. July 5 2012.
- ANSA, “Caravaggio: scoperti 100 inediti, è Rivoluzione sistema Merisi.” July 6 2012. (Also available in English.)
- Hudson, Mark. “Caravaggio discovery: to find 100 new works simply astonishing,” The Telegraph. July 5 2012.
- Squires, Nick. “Art world divided over Caravaggio 100 works discovery,” The Telegraph. July 6 2012.
- D’Emilio, Frances. “Caravaggio claims spark Italian art world spat,” Seattle Times. July 6 2012.
- AGI.it, “Caravaggio: direttore Musei Vaticani, attribuzione ottimistica,” July 6 2012.
- BBC, “Dozens of Caravaggio sketches ‘discovered,'” July 6 2012.
- Povoledo, Elisabetta and Carol Vogel,”Scholars Doubt ‘Rediscovered’ Caravaggio Drawings,” July 6 2012. Note: The NY Times article had not yet been published at the time of writing this post. It contains new quotes from art historians and experts.
- Research published in eBook at Amazon: Young Caravaggio – one hundred rediscovered works by Maurizio Bernardelli Curuz and Adriana Conconi Fedrigolli. In two volumes & available in multiple languages.
- I also posted multiple times today about the discovery on Tumblr under the tag Caravaggio Discovery, and on Facebook.
Caravaggio the Leader. – May 25, 2012
Note: This article lists bibliographic information in the footnotes at the end of the article.
On Anthropomorphism. – April 4, 2012
- “Notes from the Field,” The Art Bulletin, March 2012. Essays by: Elizabeth King, Carolyn Dean, J.M. Bernstein, and Jane Garnett and Gervase Rosser.
CAA 2012. – March 7, 2012
- Lloyd, Karen J. “A New Samson: Scipione Borghese and the Representation of Nepotism in the Vatican Palace,” presented in the session Art & Architecture in Europe: 1600-1750 (chair: John Beldon Scott), February 25, 2012.
- Ciejka, Jason. “Rhetoric and Narrative in the Architecture of Carlo Rainaldi, presented in the session Art & Architecture in Europe: 1600-1750 (chair: John Beldon Scott), February 25, 2012.
- Domenico Bernini, The Life of Gian Lorenzo Bernini, trans. Franco Mormando, Penn State Press, 2011.
- Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome, University of Chicago Press, 2011.
The Mughal Empire: Jahangir. – February 24, 2012
- Milo Cleveland Beach, “The Gulshan Album and Its European Sources,” Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Vol. 63, No. 332 (1965), pp. 63-91.
- Lajpat Rai, “Review of Akbar the Great Mogul by Vincent Smith,“ Political Science Quarterly , Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1918), pp. 570-573.
- Fran Pritchett, Columbia University, Jahangir (timeline with art that he commissioned).
- MET, St. Jerome by Keshav Das.
- The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, From the Land of the Taj Mahal: Paintings for India’s Mughal Emperors, 2009.
- Walters Art Gallery, Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal and Tibet in the John & Berthe Ford Collection.
- UCLA coursework from 2008-2010.
Celebrating Romance. – February 14, 2012
- Google Art Project: Titian, Venus of Urbino.
- The Getty, Consuming Passion: Fragonard’s Allegories of Love.
- McPhee, Sarah. Bernini’s Beloved: A Portrait of Constanza Piccolomini, forthcoming from Yale University Press.
- See Franco Mormando, Bernini: His Life and His Rome, pp. 99-109, for more information about the scandalous end to Constanza and Bernini’s relationship.
Heaven. – January 31, 2012
- Worthen, Thomas. Tintoretto’s Paintings for the Banco del Sacramento in S. Margherita,” The Art Bulletin , Vol. 78, No. 4 (Dec., 1996), pp. 707-732.
- Omaston, F.P.B. “The Paradise of Tintoretto,” 1910.
- Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Rev. Donovan, 1829.
- Martin Luther, Sermons on the gospels for the Sundays and principal festivals of the church year, vol. 2, Augustana Book Concern, 1871.
The Nativity. – December 22, 2011
- The National Gallery of Art, Audio tour for The Adoration of the Magi by Fra Filippo Lippi & Fra Angelico.
- Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Rev. Donovan, 1829.
- St. Ignatius, Spiritual Exercises, 1522-24.
The Annunciation. – December 16, 2011
- Van Dijk, Ann. “The Angelic Salutation in Early Byzantine and Medieval Annunciation Imagery,” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 81, No. 3 (Sep., 1999), pp. 420-436.
- Kimmelman, Michael. “Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Italian Antihero’s Time to Shine,” NY Times, March 9, 2010.
- Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Rev. Donovan, 1829.
- Martin Luther, Sermon, Christmas 1531.
Vengeful Seductress: Judith. – November 30, 2011
- Mary Garrard & Gloria Steinem, On Artemisia Gentileschi.
- Book of Judith, Douay-Rheims
- Tumblr followers who responded to this inquiry: vivalacacka, angelkissingonasinner, artisandoflove
Sexy Seductress: Potiphar’s Wife. – November 28, 2011
- Recommended read: Richard Spear, Seeing Double: Two Versions of Guercino’s Joseph & Potiphar’s Wife.
Dancing Seductress: Salome. – November 18, 2011
- G. “Salome with the Head of John the Baptist.” Museum of Fine Arts Bulletin, Vol. 19, No. 116 (Dec., 1921), p. 72.
On Halloween, Remember You Will Die. – October 31, 2011
- Atlas Obscura: Chiesa Dei Morti
- Villasenor-Black, Charlene. Various Lectures. Art His 109A, Spring 2010. University of California, Los Angeles.
Baroque Spain: El Greco. Death and the Supernatural. – October 10, 2011
- Stoichita, Victor. Visionary Experience in the Golden Age of Spanish Spanish Art, 1995. Preview it on Google Books.
- Villasenor-Black, Charlene. Various Lectures. Art His 109A, Spring 2010. University of California, Los Angeles.
- Catechism of the Council of Trent, translated by Theodore Alois Buckley, 1852.
Baroque Spain: Devotion on Canvas. – September 30, 2011
- Darby, Delphine Fitz. “Review: Ribera by Elizabeth du Gué Trapier.” The Art Bulletin, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Mar., 1953), pp. 68-74
- Villasenor-Black, Charlene. Various Lectures. Art His 109A, Spring 2010. University of California, Los Angeles.
Happy 440th Birthday, Caravaggio! – September 29, 2011
- Sohm, Philip. “Caravaggio’s Deaths.” The Art Bulletin, 84, 2002, pp.449-468.
King David: Symbol of Perfection and Justice – September 21, 2011
- Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, Caravaggio’s Secrets. MIT Press (October Book Edition). 1998.
- Stone, David M. “Self and Myth in Caravaggio’s David and Goliath Paintings,” in Caravaggio: realism, rebellion, reception, ed. Genevieve Warwick. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2006.
- Kenseth, Joy. “Bernini’s Borghese Sculptures: Another View.” The Art Bulletin. Vol. 63, No. 2 (Jun., 1981), pp. 191-210.
It’s Hard not to Love Caravaggio. – September 8, 2011
Many phenomenal sources contribute to the way I think about Caravaggio, and therefore directly (or indirectly) affect everything I write about him. A very well compiled list of scholars who have contributed to our understanding of Caravaggio can be found here.
King David: Hero, Sinner, Friend of God – September 7, 2011 (Part 1 of 2)
- Bennett, Bonnie and David Wilkins. Donatello. Mt. Kisco: Moyer Bell Limitec, 1984.
- Adams, Laurie Schneider. “Donatello’s Bronze David.” The Art Bulletin 55.2 (1973): 213-216.
- Rèau, Louis. Iconographie de l’art Chrètien. Vol. 2. Paris: Presses universitaires de France,1955-59. 3 vols.
A Haggardly Beautiful Mary Magdalene – September 6, 2011
- Bennett, Bonnie and David Wilkins. Donatello. Mt. Kisco: Moyer Bell Limitec, 1984.
- Duneklman, Martha Levine. “Donatello’s Mary Magdalen: A Model of Courage and Survival.” Women’s Art Journal 26.2 (2005): 10-13.
Dürer and the Man of Sorrows – August 31, 2011
- Douay Rheims Bible (1899 Version).
- Harbison, Craig. “Dürer and the Reformation: The Problem of the Re-dating of the St. Philip Engraving“, The Art Bulletin, Vol. 5 No. 3, Sept. 1976: 368-373.
- Marty, Martin. Martin Luther: A Life. London: Penguin Books, 2008.
The Massacre at Chios – August 24, 2011
- Images came from this website entry about the same painting.
On the Power of Aesthetics and Artistic Intent – August 22, 2011
- Gay, Melinda. “The Shock of the Old,” Frieze Magazine. February 2003.
- Rufus, Anneli. “Can Art Drive Us Crazy?,” Psychology Today Blog. August 12, 2009.
- Squires, Nick. “Scientists Investigate Stendhal Syndrome,” The Telegraph. July 28, 2010.
- Guerrero, A.L., A. Barcelo Rossello, and D. Ezpeleta, “Sindrome de Stendhal: origen, naturaleza y presentacion en un grupo de neurologos,” Neurologia. February 2010.
What is Resemblance? – August 4, 2011 (Rev. August 5, 2011)
- De Botton Alain. The Architecture of Happiness. New York: Pantheon Books, 2006.
- Summers, David. “Representation.” In Critical Terms for Art History, Second Edition edited by Robert S. Nelson and Richard Shiff, 3-19. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Varriano, John. Caravaggio and Violence. Storia dell’Arte 97 (1999): 317-328.
What is Art History? – June 28, 2011
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez.
- Hatt, Michael and Charlotte Klonk. Art History: A Critical Introduction to Its Methods. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006.
- Trachtenberg, Marvin. Dominion of the Eye: Urbanism, Art, Power in Early Modern Florence. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Boring History – June 17, 2011
- Banchero, Stephanie. “Students Stumble Again on Basics of History,” The Wall Street Journal. June 15, 2011.
- Dillon, Sam. “U.S. Students Remain Poor at History, Tests Show,” The New York Times. June 14, 2011.
The Value of my UCLA Degree – June 3, 2011
- LeTellier, Alexandra. “Given Economic Challenges, is College Worth It?,” The Los Angeles Times. May 19, 2011.
- Pinola, Melanie. “What Your College Major is Worth,” Lifehacker. May 31, 2011.
- Rampell, Catherine. “The College Majors that do the Best in the Job Market,” NY Times Economix Blog. May 19, 2011.
- Arum, Richard Arum and Josipa Roksa. “Your So-Called Education,” The New York Times. May 14, 2011.
- Magan, Christopher. “Value of College Debated as Costs Rise, Pay Decrases,” Springfield News-Sun. June 1, 2011.
- Arum, Richard and Josipa Roksa. “College, too easy for its own good,” The Los Angeles Times. June 2, 2011.
- Arum, Richard and Josipa Roksa. Academically Adrift: Limited Learning on College Campuses. Chicago: University Of Chicago Press, 2011.
- Menand, Louis. “Live & Learn: Why We Have College,” The New Yorker. June 6, 2011.
- UCLA True Bruin: The Bruins Ethical Standards.
