Neoclassical and 19th Century Architecture
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Avery, Derek, Georgian & Regency architecture, Chaucer, NA966.5.G45A94 2003
Christie, Christopher, The British country house in the eighteenth century, Manchester University Press, HT653.G7C47 2000
Etlin, Richard A., Symbolic space: French Enlightenment architecture and its legacy, University of Chicago Press, NA1046.5.N4E48 1994
Girouard, Mark, Life in the English country house: a social and architectural history, Yale University Press, HT653.G7G57 1978
Guillery, Peter & Michael Snodin, “Strawberry Hill: building and site,” Architectural History, 1995, p. 102-128 (PDF via Jstor)
Kalnein, Wend von, Architecture in France in the eighteenth century, Yale University Press, NA1046.K35 1994
Kaufmann, Emil, Architecture in the age of reason; baroque and postbaroque in England, Italy, and France, Dover, NA590.K3 1968
Picon, Antoine, French architects and engineers in the Age of Enlightenment, Cambridge University Press, NA1046.5.N4P513 1992
Russell, Terence M., Architecture in the Encyclopédie of Diderot and d'Alembert, Scolar Press, NA2515.R87 1993
Stillman, Damie, “Church architecture in neo-classical England,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, May 1979, p. 103-119 (PDF via Jstor)
Watkin, David & Tilman Mellinghoff, German architecture and the classical ideal, MIT Press, NA1066.5.N46W38 1987
Arnold, Dana, "Blondel family," Oxford Art Online
“Classical & Contemporary” and “The Continuity of Symbols” in Charles Harrison, et al., Art in theory, 1648-1815: an anthology of changing ideas, Blackwell, N6490.A78 2001
Eitner, Lorenz, Neoclassicism and romanticism, 1750-1850; sources and documents, Prentice-Hall, N6425.N4E36 1970
Friedman, Alice T., “Academic theory and A.-L.-T. Vaudoyer's Dissertation sur l'architecture,” The Art Bulletin, March 1985, p. 110-123 (PDF via JStor)
Gilly, Friedrich, Essays on architecture, 1796-1799, Getty, NA1066.G55 1994
Laugier, Marc-Antoine, An essay on architecture, Hennessey & Ingalls, NA2515.L2913
Lavin, Sylvia, Quatremère de Quincy and the invention of a modern language of architecture, MIT Press, NA2500.L38 1992
Perrault, Claude, Ordonnance for the five kinds of columns after the method of the ancients, Getty, NA2812.P413 1993
Pfister, Harold Francis, “Burlingtonian architectural theory in England and America,”Winterthur Portfolio, v. 11, 1976, p. 123-151 (PDF via JStor)
Potts, Alex, "Johann Joachim Winckelmann," Oxford Art Online.
Saisselin, Rémy G., Enlightenment against the baroque, University of California Press, CB411.S23 1992
Tsien, Jennifer & Jacques Morizot "18th century French aesthetics" Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Van Eck, Caroline, British architectural theory, 1540-1750: an anthology of texts, Ashgate, NA966.B75 2003
Vidler, Anthony, The writing of the walls: architectural theory in the late enlightenment, Princeton Architectural Press, NA1046.5.N4V53 1986
Villari, Sergio, J.N.L. Durand: art and science of architecture, Rizzoli, NA1053.D87V5513 1990
Watkin, David, Sir John Soane: enlightenment thought and the Royal Academy lectures, Cambridge University Press, NA997.S7 W38 1996
Winckelmann, Johann Joachim, History of the art of antiquity, Getty, N5330 .W7413 2006
Wine, Humphrey, "Academy" Oxford Art Online
“Global China,” Journal of World History, March 2012 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Hsia, Adrian, Chinesia: the European construction of China in the literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, De Gruyter, 1998 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Jacobson, Dawn, Chinoiserie, Phaidon, N7429.J27 1993
Mayor, A. Hyatt, “Chinoiserie,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, May, 1941, p. 111-114 (PDF via JStor)
Myer, Prudence R., “Images and influences of oriental art: a study in European taste,” Art Journal, Summer, 1961, p. 203-210 (PDF via JStor)
Prosser, Lee, “The Great Pagoda at Kew: Colour and Technical Innovation in Chinoiserie Architecture,” Architectural History, Vol.62, 2019, p.69–88 (PDF via JStor)
Riccardi-Cubitt, Monique, "Chinoiserie" Oxford Art Online.
Siren, Osvald, China and gardens of Europe of the eighteenth century, Ronald Press Co., SB457.6.S57 1990
Ayres, James, Building the Georgian city, Yale University Press, NA966.A98 1998
Etlin, Richard A., The architecture of death: the transformation of the cemetery in eighteenth-century Paris, MIT Press, NA6165.E84 1984
Flexner, James Thomas, “The Great Columbian Federal City,” American Art Journal, Spring, 1970, p. 30-45 (PDF via Jstor)
Matthew, Robert, The Conservation of Georgian Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, NA109.G7C64 1972
Mitter, Partha, “The early British port cities of India: their planning and architecture circa 1640-1757,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, June 1986, p. 95-114 (PDF via JStor)
Polledri, Paolo, “Urbanism and economics: industrial activities in eighteenth-century Venice, Journal of Architectural Education, Spring 1988, p. 15-19 (PDF via JStor)
Reps, John William, The making of urban America: a history of city planning in the United States, Princeton University Press, NA9105.R45 1965
Addis, William, “Global trading and the Age of Reason and Enlightenment,” in Building: 3000 years of design engineering and construction, Phaidon, TH15.A33 2007
Daston, Lorraine, “Enlightenment calculations,” Critical Inquiry, Autumn, 1994, p. 182-202 (PDF via JStor)
Gaudio, Michael, “Swallowing the evidence: William Bartram and the limits of Enlightenment,” Winterthur Portfolio, Spring, 2001, p. 1-17 (PDF via JStor)
Glacken, Clarence J., Traces on the Rhodian shore: nature and culture in Western thought from ancient times to the end of the eighteenth century, University of California Press, GF31.G6 1976
Gilde, Joseph M., “Shadwell and the Royal Society: satire in The Virtuoso,” Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Summer 1970, p. 469-490 (PDF via JStor)
Langins, Janis, Conserving the Enlightenment: French military engineering from Vauban to the Revolution, MIT Press, UG429.F8L36 2004
Lavoisy, Olivier, “Illustration and technical know-how in eighteenth-century France,” Journal of Design History, # 2, 2004, p. 141-162 (PDF via JStor)
Piedmont-Palladino, Susan, Tools of the imagination: drawing tools and technologies from the eighteenth century to the present, Princeton Architectural Press, NA2708.T66 2006
Stafford, Barbara Maria, Body criticism: imaging the unseen in Enlightenment art and medicine, MIT Press, BF697.5.B63S73 1992
Williams, Guy R., The Age of agony; the art of healing 1700-1800, Academy Chicago Publishers, R148.W54 1986
Williams, I. Pearce, The History of science in Western civilization: the scientific revolution, University Press of America, Q125.W7913 v. 2
“A Catalogue of the furniture in Sir John Soane's Museum,” Furniture History, 2008 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Coltman, Viccy, “’Sir William Hamilton's vase publications (1766-1776): a case study in the reproduction and dissemination of antiquity,” Journal of Design History, #1, 2001, p. 1-16 (PDF via JStor)
“Eighteenth-century markets and manufactures in England and France,” Journal of Design History, # 3, 1999 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Hartwell, Dare Myers, et al, The Salon Doré, Corcoran Gallery of Art, NA2854 .C67 1998
Hope, Thomas, Household furniture and interior decoration: classic style book of the Regency period, Dover, NK2135.H7M8 1971
Kelly, Alison, “Coade stone in Georgian architecture,” Architectural History, 1985, p. 71-101 (PDF via Jstor)
Ottomeyer, Hans, "Directoire style," Oxford Art Online
Retford, Kate, "From the interior to interiority: the Conversation Piece in Georgian England," Journal of Design History, #4, 2007, p. 291-307 (PDF via Jstor)
Riccardi-Cubitt, Monique, "Louis XVI style," Oxford Art Online
Roberts, Gaye Blake & Robin Reilly, "Wedgwood," Oxford Art Online
Wilton-Ely, John, "’Amazing and ingenious fancies’: Piranesi and the Adam Brothers," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, supplementary volumes #4, 2006, p. 213-37 (PDF via Jstor)
Wilton-Ely, John, "Etruscan style," Oxford Art Online
Wilton-Ely, John, "Pompeian Revival," Oxford Art Online
Young, Paul. "Looking inside: the ambiguous interiors of La Petite Maison," South Atlantic Review, #1, 2006, p. 20-41 (PDF via Jstor)
Aspin, Philip, "’Our ancient architecture': contesting cathedrals in Late Georgian England," Architectural History, 2011, p. 213-232 (PDF via Jstor)
Bradley, Simon, “The Englishness of Gothic: theories and interpretations from William Gilpin to J. H. Parker,” Architectural History, 2002, p. 325-346 (PDF via Jstor)
Clark, Kenneth, The Gothic revival, John Murray, NA610.C5 1962
Eastlake, Charles L., A history of the Gothic revival, Humanities Press, NA610.E77 1970
Frew, John, “An Aspect of the early Gothic revival: the transformation of medievalist research, 1770-1800,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, v. 43, 1980, p. 174-185 (PDF via Jstor)
Germann, Georg & Pippa Shirley, "Gothic Revival,” Oxford Art Online.
Langley, Batty & Thomas Langley, Gothick architecture: a reprint of the original 1742 treatise, Dover, NA2840.L195 2003
Mallgrave, Harry Francis, “Gothic revival in Britain, Germany, & France,” in Architectural Theory, NA2500.A7115 2006 v. 1
Stewart, David, “Political ruins: Gothic sham ruins and the '45,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, December 1996, p. 400-411 (PDF via Jstor)
Balmori, Diana, “Architecture, landscape, and the intermediate structure: eighteenth-century experiments in mediation,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1991, p. 38-56 (PDF via Jstor)
Coffin, David R., “Venus in the eighteenth-century English garden,” Garden History, Winter, 2000, p. 173-193 (PDF via Jstor)
Conner, Patrick, “The Chinese garden in Regency England,” Garden History, Spring 1986, p. 42-49 (PDF via Jstor)
Fry, Carole, “Spanning the political divide: neo-Palladianism and the early eighteenth-century landscape,” Garden History, Winter, 2003, p. 180-192 (PDF via Jstor)
Ketcham, Diana, Le Desert de Retz: a late eighteenth-century French folly garden: the artful landscape of Monsieur de Monville, MIT Press, SB466.F83D474 1994
“Lancelot Brown (1716-83) and the Landscape Park,” Garden History, Summer 2001 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Mansbach, S. A., “An Earthwork of surprise: the 18th-century ha-ha,” Art Journal, Autumn 1982, p. 217-221 (PDF via Jstor)
Phibbs, John, "The Structure of the eighteenth-century garden," Garden History, #1, 2010, p. 20-34 (PDF via Jstor)
Serle, John, A plan of Mr. Pope's garden; Gardens at Richmond, Kew, and environs, ca. 1730-1760, Garland, SB466.G75L66 1982
Alembert, Jean le Rond, Preliminary discourse to the Encyclopedia of Diderot, Bobbs-Merrill, B1933.E5 S38 1995
Butterworth, Charles, “Averroës, precursor of the Enlightenment,” Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, #16, 1996, p. 6-18 (PDF via Jstor)
Diderot, Denis, et al., Encyclopédie, ou, Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, Pergamon Press, Office AE25.E5 1969 volumes 1-5
The Eighteenth Century (featuring “theoretical and interpretive research on all aspects of Western culture from 1660 to 1830,” PDFs from 1979, with a 3-year delay, are available via Jstor)
Eighteenth-Century Studies (journal of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, PDFs from 1967, with a 5-year delay, are available via Jstor)
Hsia, Adrian, Chinesia: the European construction of China in the Literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, De Gruyter, 1998 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Mainz, Valerie, "The Enlightenment," Oxford Art Online
Mark Salber Phillips, “Relocating inwardness: historical distance and the transition from Enlightenment to Romantic historiography,” Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, May 2003, p. 436-449 (PDF via Jstor)
“Special issue on eighteenth-century literature and thought,” New German Critique, Winter 2000 (PDFs via Jstor)
Chantler, Abigail, “The Sturm und Drang style revisited,” International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music, June 2003, p. 17-31 (PDF via Jstor)
Fisher, Burton D., Mozart's Da Ponte Operas: The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan tutte, Opera Classics Library Series, 2006 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Giles, Jeffrey, “Dance and the French Enlightenment,” Dance Chronicle, #3, 1981, p. 245-263 (PDF via Jstor)
Heartz, Daniel, “Music in the Age of Enlightenment,” The Musical Times, April 1974, p. 295-30 (PDF via Jstor)
Michael E. McClellan, “Counterrevolution in concert: music and political dissent in Revolutionary France,” The Musical Quarterly, Spring 1996, p. 31-57 (PDF via Jstor)
Robinson, Paul, “Fidelio and the French Revolution,” Cambridge Opera Journal, March 1991, p. 23-48 (PDF via Jstor)
Rosen Charles, The Classical style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, W. W. Norton, ML195.R68 1997
Sutcliffe, W. Dean (Editor), Haydn Studies, Cambridge University Press, 1998 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Weber, William, “Did people listen in the 18th century?” Early Music, November 1997, p. 678-691 (PDF via Jstor)
Williams, Peter, J. S. Bach: a life in music, Cambridge University Press, 2007 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Cassanelli, Roberto, Ruins of ancient Rome: drawings of the Prix de Rome, 1786-1924, Getty, Office NA2695.F8 A25313 2002
Colvin, H. M., “A Scottish origin for English Palladianism,” Architectural History, 1974, p. 5-52 (PDF via Jstor)
Connor, T. P., "Palladianism," Oxford Art Online
Farber, Joseph C., Palladio's architecture and its influence: a photographic guide, Dover, NA1123.P2F37 1980
Le Roy, Julien-David, The ruins of the most beautiful monuments of Greece, Getty, NA270.L413 2004
McCormick, Thomas J., Charles-Louis Clerisseau and the genesis of neo-classicism, MIT Press, NA1053.C58 M38 1990
Middleton, R. D., “The Abbé de Cordemoy and the Graeco-Gothic ideal: a prelude to Romantic classicism,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, July/December 1962, p. 278-320 (PDF via Jstor)
“Special issue devoted to French neo-classicism,” The Burlington Magazine, December 1975 (PDF via Jstor)
Vivian, Frances, “Joseph Smith and the cult of Palladianism,” The Burlington Magazine, April 1963, p. 157-162 (PDF via Jstor)
Wilton-Ely, John, "Neo-classicism," Oxford Art Online.
Wittkower, Rudolf, Palladio and English Palladianism, Thames & Hudson, NA1123.P2W57 1983
Wittkower, Rudolf, “Pseudo-Palladian elements in English neo-classical architecture,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, v. 6, 1943, p. 154-164 (PDF via Jstor)
Cranston, Maurice, "Sensibilité," Oxford Art Online
Hunt, John Dixon, Gardens and the picturesque: studies in the history of landscape architecture, MIT Press, SB457.6.H865 1992
Hunt, John Dixon, "Picturesque," Oxford Art Online
Lambert, David, “The Poet's feeling: aspects of the picturesque in contemporary literature, 1794-1816,” Garden History, Summer 1996, p. 82-99 (PDF via Jstor)
Nabholtz, John R., “Wordsworth's Guide to the Lakes and the picturesque tradition,” Modern Philology, May 1964, p. 288-297 (PDF via Jstor)
Orestano, Francesca, “The Revd William Gilpin and the picturesque; or, Who's afraid of Doctor Syntax?” Garden History, Winter 2003, p. 163-179 (PDF via Jstor)
“The Picturesque,” Garden History, Winter 1994 (Theme issue, PDFs available via Jstor)
Robinson, Sidney K., Inquiry into the picturesque, BH211.P53R62 1991
AMERICA
Drexler, Kenneth, Library of Congress guide to the American Revolution
Hughes, Robert, “The Republic of virtue,” in American Visions, Alfred A. Knopf, N6506.H84 1997
Park, Helen, “A List of architectural books available in America before the Revolution,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, October 1961, p. 115-130 (PDF via Jstor)
Pierson, William Harvey, American buildings and their architects: the Colonial and Neoclassical styles, Oxford University Press, NA705 .P5 1970 vol. 1
Popkin, Jeremy D., Concise history of the Haitian Revolution, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Whiffen, Marcus & Frederick Koeper, American architecture, 1607-1860, MIT Press, NA705.W473 1981 v. 1
Whitehill, Walter Muir, Palladio in America, Electa, NA1123.P2W5 1978
FRANCE
“1789-1889-1989,” The French Review, May 1989 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Becherer, Richard, “The revolutionary look of Louis Sebastien Mercer's Tableau de Paris,” Journal of Architectural Education, Summer 1989, p. 3-14 (PDF via Jstor)
Cellauro, Louis & Gilbert Richaud, “Thomas Jefferson and François Cointereaux, professor of rural architecture in revolutionary Paris,” Architectural History, 2005, p. 173-206 (PDF via Jstor)
Lee, Paula Young, "Pisé and the peasantry: François Cointeraux and the rhetoric of rural housing in revolutionary Paris," Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, #1, 2008, p. 58-77 (PDF via Jstor)
Luke, Yvonne, “The Politics of participation: Quatremere de Quincy and the theory and practice of Concours publiques in revolutionary France 1791-1795,” Oxford Art Journal, #1, 1987, p. 15-43 (PDF via Jstor)
Mainardi, Patricia, “’Assuring the empire of the future: the 1798 Fête de la Liberté,”Art Journal, Summer 1989, p. 155-163 (PDF via Jstor)
McClellan, Andrew L., “The Musée du Louvre as revolutionary metaphor during the Terror,” The Art Bulletin, June 1988, p. 300-313 (PDF via Jstor)
O'Connell, Lauren M., “Redefining the past: revolutionary architecture and the Conseil des Bâtiments Civils,” The Art Bulletin, June 1995, p. 207-224 (PDF via Jstor)
Starobinski, Jean, 1789, the emblems of reason, University Press of Virginia, NX452.5.N4S713 1988
Vidler, Anthony, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: architecture and utopia in the era of the French Revolution, Birkhäuser, NA1053.L4 V5313 2006
Clark, Kenneth, The Romantic rebellion, Harper & Row, N6465.R6C55 1973
"Romantic Classicism," Oxford Art Online
Rosenthal, Léon, Romanticism, Parkstone International, 2012 (via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Schwartz, Janelle A., Worm work: recasting romanticism, University of Minnesota Press, 2012 (via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Vaughan, William, "Romanticism," Oxford Art Online
Walton, Kendall L., et al., “Aesthetics; Kant & Romanticism,” Oxford Art Online
Williams, Anne, Art of darkness: a poetics of Gothic, University of Chicago Press, 1995 (via ProQuest Ebook Central)
Wolf, Norbert, Romanticism, Taschen, ND192.R6 W65 2007
Ashfield, Andrew & Peter de Bolla, The sublime: a reader in British eighteenth-century aesthetic theory, Cambridge University Press, BH301.S9S9 1996
Burke, Edmund, A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful, Oxford University Press, BH181.B8 1990
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, Beauty and the contemporary sublime, Allworth Press, BH301.S7 G55 1999
Heringman, Noah, Romantic rocks, aesthetic geology, Cornell University Press, 2004 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Kant, Immanuel, Observations on the feeling of the beautiful and the sublime, University of California Press, BH183.K313 2003
Lyotard, Jean-François, Lessons on the analytic of the sublime: Kant's Critique of Judgment, Stanford University Press, B2784.L9613 1994
Morley, Simon, The sublime, MIT Press, N6490.S88415 2010
Rodgers, David, "The Sublime," Oxford Art Online
Philip Shaw, The sublime, Routledge, BH301.S7S53 2006
“The Sublime and the beautiful: reconsiderations,” New Literary History, Winter 1985 (Theme issue, PDF via Jstor)
Van Eck, Caroline A. (Editor), Translations of the sublime: the early modern reception and dissemination of Longinus' Peri Hupsous in rhetoric, the visual arts, architecture and the theatre, Brill, 2012 (ebook via ProQuest ebrary)
Boime, Albert, Art in an age of revolution, 1750-1800, University of Chicago Press, N6425.N4B6 1987
Bull, Malcolm, Inventing falsehood, making truth: Vico and Neapolitan painting, Princeton University Press, 2013 (ebook via ProQuest Ebrary)
Crow, Thomas E., Painters and public life in eighteenth-century Paris, Yale University Press, ND550.C75 1985
Diderot, Denis & John Goodman, Diderot on Art, Yale University Press, N6846.D4613 1995, volumes 1-2
Grigsby, Darcy Grimaldo, “Nudity à la grecque in 1799,” The Art Bulletin, June 1998, p. 311-335 (PDF via Jstor)
McClellan, Andrew, Inventing the Louvre: art, politics, and the origins of the modern museum in eighteenth-century Paris, Cambridge University Press, N2030.M34 1994
Solkin, David H., Art in Britain, 1660-1815, Yale University Press, N6766 .S65 2015
PIRANESI
Denison, Cara D., Exploring Rome: Piranesi and his contemporaries, MIT Press, N6920.D48 1993
Ficacci, Luigi, Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Taschen, NE2052.5.P5F53 2006
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, The Imaginary views, Academy Editions, NE2052.4.P5H35 1979
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista, Piranesi: The Prisons (Le carceri), Dover, NE2052.5.P5A4
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista & John Wilton-Ely, Observations on the letter of Monsieur Mariette, Getty Research Institute, NA2515.P57 2002
“The Serpent and the stylus: essays on G. B. Piranesi,” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. Supplementary volumes, v. 4, 2006 (Theme issue, PDFs via Jstor)
Wilton-Ely, John, "Piranesi, Giovanni Battista,” Oxford Art Online
Wilton-Ely, John, Piranesi as architect & designer, Yale University Press, N6923.P49W55 1993
Wittkower, Rudolf, “Piranesi's Parere su L'Architettura,” Journal of the Warburg Institute, October 1938, p. 147-158 (PDF via Jstor)

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