Chapius, Julien. Tilman Riemenschneider, c. 1460–1531. Washington,
DC: National Gallery of Art, Studies in the History of Art, 2004. Includes
essays on aspects of the artist and his work by a number of art historians
and conservators.
Christiansen, Keith. Andrea Mantegna: Padua and Mantua. New York:
George Braziller, 1994. An extensive catalogue of the artist’s work published
on the occasion of a major exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
including reevaluations of the artist’s painting and prints. The author is a
respected curator at the Metropolitan; the book was published in “The Great
Fresco Cycles of the Renaissance” series.
Chu, Petra ten-Doesschate. Nineteenth-Century European Art. Upper
Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall Abrams, 2003. The best current survey of
19 th-centruy art, incorporating the many recent revisions in the scholarship
on the period.
Clark, Kenneth. Leonardo da Vinci. New York: Penguin, 1993. This is
a reprint of a very old book, by a famous historian whose insights make
it important.
Cole, Bruce. Titian and Venetian Painting, 1450–1590. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press, 1999. A well-written survey of the golden age of
Venetian painting.
Cool, D., S. Jones, and S. Foister, eds. Investigating Jan Van Eyck. Belgium:
Brepols Publishers, 2000. Includes numerous essays by Van Eyck scholars,
examining all aspects of his art.
Cropper, Elizabeth, and Charles Dempsey. Nicolas Poussin: Friendship
and the Love of Painting. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
- Emphasizes Poussin’s experience in Rome and with the art of
Roman antiquity.
Deimling, Barbara. Sandro Botticelli, 1444/45–1510. Köln: Taschen, 2000.
Provides detailed analyses of the artist’s allegorical and religious paintings.