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Resources on Cesare Vecellio and His Works | Contextual Material: Venetians, Costume, Costume Books and Early European Printing

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Resources on Cesare Vecellio and His Works
  1. Barioli, Gino et al. Il Gusto e la moda nel cinquecento vicentino e veneto: mostra a Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza, 30 maggio-15 dicembre 1973 (Vicenza: Direzione Musei Civici, [1973?]).

  2. Conte, Tiziana. Cesare Vecellio, 1521 c.-1601 (Belluno: Amministrazione provinciale di Belluno, 2001 and 2002).
  3. Firmin-Didot, Ambroise. Essai typographique et bibliographique sur l'histoire de la gravure sur bois, par Ambroise Firmin Didot, pour faire suite aux Costumes anciens et modernes de C|ac|esar Vecellio (Paris: [Typ. de Firmin Didot fr`eres & fils],1863).
  4. Guérin-Dalle Mese, Jeannine. Il vestito e la sua immagine: atti del convegno in omaggio a Cesare Vecellio nel quarto centenario della morte: Belluno 20-22 settembre 2001 (Belluno: Provincia di Belluno, 2002).
  5. _____. L'occhio di Cesare Vecellio: abiti e costumi esotici nel '500 (Alessandria: Edizioni dell'Orso, 1998).
  6. Herrmann, Laura Renee. African costume for artists the woodcuts in Book X of Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo, 1598 (Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, 2004) Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 2004.
  7. Küp, Karl. "Some Early Costume Books" in Bulletin of the New York Public Library (v. 40, November 1936) p. 926-932.
  8. Le quattro stagioni, affreschi di Cesare Vecellio nell'atrio del Palazzo della Provincia di Belluno (Padova, 1937).
  9. Lozzi, Carlo. Cesare Vecellio e i suoi disegni e intagli per libri di costumi e di merletti (Firenze : L.S. Olschki, 1900) v. 1, p. 3-11.
  10. Olian, Jo Anne. "Sixteenth-Century Costume Books" in Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America (3, 1977) p. 20-48.
  11. Pizzi antichi nei disegni di Cesare Vecellio (Milano: SugarCo., 1980).
  12. new! Rosenthal, Margaret F. and Jones, Ann Rosalind. The Clothing of the Renaissance World: Europe, Asia, Africa, The Americas; Cesare Vecellio's Habiti Antichi et Moderni (London: Thames and Hudson, 2008).
  13. Tessie, Andrea. Di Cesare Vecellio e de'suoi dipinti e disegni in una collezione di libri dei secoli XV e XVI (Venezia: Coi tipi di G. Cecchini (Figlio)).
  14. Timmons, Traci Elizabeth. "Habiti Antichi et Moderni di Tutto il Mondo and the 'Myth of Venice'" in Athanor ( 15, 1997) p. 28-33.
  15. ______. Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo as an indicator of the late sixteenth-century Venetian social order (Tampa, FL: University of South Florida, 1996) Thesis (M.A.)--University of South Florida, 1996.
  16. Vecellio, Cesare. Costumes anciens (Paris: Carrousel; Paris: Aventurine, 1999). Also called Costumes anciens et modernes du monde entier. Selections.
  17. _____. Costumes anciens et modernes = Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo / di Cesare Vecellio; pr|ac|ec|ac|ed|ac|es d'un essai sur la gravure sur bois par Amb. Firmin Didot (Paris: Typ. de Firmin Didot, 1859-1860).
  18. _____. Pattern book of Renaissance lace : a reprint of the 1617 edition of the "Corona delle nobili et virtuose donne" (New York : Dover, 1988).
  19. _____. Vecellio's Renaissance costume book: all 500 woodcut illustrations from the famous sixteenth-century compendium of world costume (New York : Dover Publications, 1977).
  20. Wilson, Bronwen. "Reproducing the contours of Venetian identity in sixteenth-century costume books" in Studies in iconography (v. 25, 2004) p. 221-274.
  21. _____. "Venice, print, and the early modern icon" in Urban History (33:1, 2006).

Contextual Material: Venetians, Costume, Costume Books and Early European Printing
  1. Arnold, Janet. A Handbook of Costume (London: MacMillan Limited, 1973).

  2. _____. Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women c.1560-1620 (New York: Drama Books, 1985).
  3. Ashelford, Jane. A Visual History of Costume: The Sixteenth Century (London: B.T. Batsford Ltd., 1993).
  4. Baldwin, Muriel. "Costume 1400-1600: An Exhibition in the Spencer Room" in The Bulletin of the New York Public Library (41, January 1937) p. 8-14.
  5. Bernhardt, Elizabeth Louise. Venetian Chopines: Material culture keys to understanding similarities and differences between China and Venice, noble women and courtesans [abridged version]
    Scroll down to see three plates from Vecellio's 1598 edition "Habiti antichi et moderni di tutto il mondo." Elizabeth Louise Bernhardt, University of Toronto, uses Vecellio's images, among others, in a very interesting discussion on courtesans, chopines and the similarities between Venice and the East. Click here to see more of Dr. Bernhardt's fascinating research on Venetian (and other) footwear.

  6. Brown, Horatio F. The Venetian Printing Press 1469-1800 (Amsterdam: Gérard Th. Van Heusden,1969).

  7. Chambers, David and Pullam, Brian. Venice: A Documentary History 1450-1630 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1992).
  8. Chartier, Roger. The Culture of Print: Power and the Uses of Print in Early Modern Europe, translated by Lydia G. Cochrane (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989).
  9. Eicher, Joanne Bubolz and Mary Ellen Roach, eds. Dress, Adornment and the Social Order (New York: Wiley, 1965).
  10. Fauro, Guido. "L'enigma di due vesti bizantine tra Oriente e Occidente" in eds. Iacobini, Antonio and Della-Valle, Mauro, L'arte di Bisanzio e l'Italia al tempo dei Paleologi, 1261-1453 (conference report; Roma: Argos, 1999).
  11. Febvre, Lucien and Henri-Jean Martin. The Coming of the Book: The Impact of Printing 1450 - 1800, translated by David Gerard (London: NLB, 1976).

  12. Grazioli, G. "I libri dipinti della raccolta Piloni : conferenza di Giovanni Grazioli, Belluno, 4 giugno 1999" in Archivio storico di Belluno Feltre e Cadore (v. 70, no. 3, July-Sept, 1999) p. 213-214.
  13. Heinemann, Fritz. "La bottega di Tiziano/Titian's workshop" in Tiziano e Venezia (Vicenza: Neri Pozza, 1980).

  14. Herald, Jacqueline. Renaissance Dress in Italy 1400-1500 (London: Bell and Hyman, 1989).

  15. Hughes, Diane Owen. "Regulating Women's Fashion" in A History of Women in the West: Silences of the Middle Ages, Vol. II, ed. by Christiane Klapisch-Zuber (Cambridge, MA and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1992).
  16. _____. "Sumptuary Law and Social Relations in Renaissance Italy" in Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West, ed. by John Bossy (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1986).
  17. Ivins, Jr., William M. Prints and Visual Communication (Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1953).
  18. _____. Notes on Prints: Being the Texts of Labels Prepared for a Special Exhibition of Prints from the Museum Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930).
  19. _____. Prints and Books: Informal Papers (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1927).
  20. Lawner, Lynne. Lives of the Courtesan: Portraits of the Renaissance (New York: Rizzoli, 1987).
  21. Le Goff, Raichel. "Mistresses and Courtesans: A discussion of the erotic appeal of the so-called Belle Donne portraits concentrating on the works of Palma Vecchio and Titian." (Presented at the Courtauld Institute London as a seminar Venetian Portraiture 1475-1575 25/11/94.)
  22. Masson, Georgina. Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976).

  23. Mayor, A. H. Prints and People: A Social History of Printed Pictures (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971).
  24. _____. "Renaissance Costume Books" in Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (XXXVII: 6, June 1942) 158-159.
  25. Mortier, Bianca M. du. "Hier sietmen Vrouwen van alderley Natien ... : kostuumboeken bron voor de schilderkunst? (English: ... Here one sees women of all nations ... : costume books as source for painting?) in Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum (v. 39, no. 4, 1991) p. 401-413).
  26. Nevinson, J. "The dress of the citizen of London 1540-1640" in Collectanea Londinensia. Studies presented to Ralph Merrifield (London: London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 1978)

  27. Newett, M. Margaret. "Sumptuary Laws in Venice in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries" in Historical Essays, eds. T. F. Tout and James Tait (Manchester: The University Press, 1902).

  28. Newton, Stella Mary. The Dress of the Venetians 1495 - 1525 (Aldershot, England and Brookfield, Vermont: Scolar Press, 1988).
  29. _____. Renaissance Theatre Costume and the Sense of the Historic Past (New York: Theatre Arts Books, 1975).
  30. Pellerano-Ludmer, Joyce. "Echoes of Columbus' discoveries : early visual images of the New World with speculation on notes and drawings by Leonardo da Vinci" in 1492 dos mundos : paralelismos y convergencias: XII coloquio internacional de historia del arte (Mexico D.F., Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, 1991)

  31. Perry, Marilyn. "Saint Mark's trophies; legend, superstition and archaeology in Renaissance Venice" in Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes: XL (1977) 27-49

  32. Roberts, Sean. "Map, Image, Manuscript, Print in the Early Modern Mediterranean" [paper given at the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute seminar "Workshop on Print in a Global Context: Japan and the World" (October 24, 2008).]

  33. Rosenthal, Margaret F. The Honest Courtesan: Veronica Franco, Citizen and Writer in Sixteenth-Century Venice (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).
  34. Scanlan, Laura Wolff. "Translating Fashion: Customs and Clothes in the Age of Exploration" in Humanities (26:1, January/February 2005).
  35. Tilke, Max. Costume Patterns and Designs (New York: Rizzoli, 1990).

Resources on Cesare Vecellio and His Works | Contextual Material: Venetians, Costume, Costume Books and Early European Printing

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