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Introduction
- Quoted in George Heard Hamilton,Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880–1940,
6th ed. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1993), 345. - Quoted in Josef Albers: Homage to the Square (New York: Museum of Modern Art,
1964), n.p.
Chapter 2 - Translated by Françoise Tallon, in Prudence O. Harper et al.,The Royal City of Susa
(New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), 132.
Chapter 3
- Herodotus,Histories,2.35.
- The chronology adopted in this chapter is that of John Baines and Jaromír Malék,
Atlas of Ancient Eg ypt(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1980), 36–37. The division
of kingdoms is that of, among others, Mark Lehner,The Complete Pyramids(New
York: Thames & Hudson, 1997), 8–9, and David P. Silverman, ed.,Ancient Eg ypt
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 20–39.
Chapter 4
- Homer,Iliad,2.466–649.
Chapter 5
- Plutarch,Life of Pericles,12.
- Pliny,Natural History,34.74.
- Ibid., 36.20.
- Lucian,Amores,13–14;Imagines,6.
- Plutarch,Moralia,335A–B. Translated by J. J. Pollitt,The Art of Ancient Greece:
Sources and Documents(New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 99. - Pliny,Natural History,35.110.
Chapter 10
- Livy,History of Rome,25.40.1–3.
- Recorded by the Venerable Bede, the great English scholar, monk, and saint, who
died in 735. Translated by Lord Byron in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage(1817), 4.145. - Juvenal,Satires,3.225, 232.
Chapter 11
- Translated by Raymond Davis,The Book of Pontiffs (Liverpool: Liverpool University
Press, 1989), 18–19.
Chapter 12
- Paulus Silentarius,Descriptio Sanctae Sophiae,617–646. Translated by Cyril Mango,
The Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312–1453: Sources and Documents(reprint of 1972
ed., Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1986), 85–86. - Procopius,De aedificiis,1.1.23ff. Translated by Mango, 74.
- Paulus Silentarius, 489, 668. Translated by Mango, 83, 86.
- Translated by Colin Luibheid,Pseudo-Dionysius: The Complete Works(New York:
Paulist, 1987), 68ff.
5. Procopius, 1.1.23ff. Translated by Mango, 75.
6.Libri Carolini4.2. Translated by Herbert L. Kessler,Spiritual Seeing: Picturing God’s In-
visibility in Medieval Art(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), 119.
7. Nina G. Garsoïan, “Later Byzantium,” in John A. Garraty and Peter Gay, eds.,The Co-
lumbia History of the World(New York: Harper & Row, 1972), 453.
8. Ibid., 460.
Chapter 16
1.Beowulf,3162–3164, translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland (New York: Farrar, Straus
& Giroux, 1968), 119.
2.Beowulf,33. - Translated by Françoise Henry,The Book of Kells(New York: Knopf, 1974), 165.
- Translated by John W. Williams, in The Art of Medieval Spain A.D. 500–1200(New
York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993), 156. - Translated by Adam S. Cohen,The Uta Codex(University Park: Pennsylvania State
University Press, 2000), 11, 41.
Chapter 17 - Translated by Charles P. Parkhurst Jr., in Elizabeth G. Holt,A Documentary History
of Art,2d ed. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1981), 1: 18. - Translated by Giovanna De Appolonia, Boston University.
- Translated by Calvin B. Kendall,The Allegory of the Church: Romanesque Portals and
Their Verse Inscriptions(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1998), 207. - Translated by John Williams,A Spanish Apocalypse: The Morgan Beatus Manuscript
(New York: Braziller, 1991), 223. - Bernard of Clairvaux,Apologia 12.28. Translated by Conrad Rudolph,The “Things
of Greater Importance”: Bernard of Clairvaux’s Apologia and the Medieval Attitude
toward Art (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990), 281, 283.
6.Rule of Saint Benedict,57.1. Translated by Timothy Fry,The Rule of St. Benedict (Col-
legeville, Minn.: Liturgical, 1981), 265.
Chapter 18 - Giorgio Vasari,Introduzione alle tre arti del disegno(1550), ch. 3. Translated by Paul
Frankl,The Gothic: Literary Sources and Interpretation through Eight Centuries
(Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1960), 290–291, 859–860. - Dante,Divine Comedy,Purgatory, 11.81.
- Translated by Roland Behrendt,Johannes Trithemius, in Praise of Scribes: De laude
scriptorum(Lawrence, Kans.: Coronado, 1974), 71. - Frankl, 55.
Chapter 20 - Francisco de Hollanda,De pintura antigua(1548). Robert Klein and Henri Zerner,
Italian Art, 1500–1600: Sources and Documents(Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall,
1966), 33.
Chapter 21 - Ghiberti,I commentarii,II. Quoted in Elizabeth Gilmore Holt, ed.,A Documentary
History of Art, I: The Middle Ages and the Renaissance (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Uni-
versity Press, 1981), 157–158.