This bibliography supplements E. H. Gombrich's essay on "The Literature of Art," which is available as a separate document on this home page.

The original version of this essay was furnished with a brief bibliography which began with a bow to Professor Gombrich's teacher, Julius von Schlosser: "Scarcely any area of art scholarship," the author wrote, "can point to a comprehensive survey of such universally acknowledged superiority as can the literature of art, which possesses in Julius Schlosser's book Die Kunstliteratur [1924] a work that has attained virtually the status of a classic." For a bibliographical survey of the literary sources discussed in his essay, Gombrich accordingly directed his original readers to the (then) most current edition of Schlosser's classic: La letteratura artistica (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1935), along with Otto Kurz's bibliographical "appendix" of 1937. Since this essay was first published, three further updated editions of Schlosser have appeared. Kurz saw through the press two more Italian editions (1956, 1964), each with revised and updated bibliographies, and more recently a French edition, with updated bibliographies, appeared briefly on the market: La littérature artistique (Paris: Flammarion, 1984). This French edition is deeply flawed (see this translator's review in the Burlington Magazine 130 [October 1988]: 783- 4) and has already gone out of print. Therefore, the 1964 Italian edition remains both the most reliable and, thanks to a paperback reprint (1977), also the most accessible edition. But for the most up- to- date bibliographies, readers must nonetheless be directed (with a caveat) to the French edition. While the original German edition of 1924 has recently been reprinted, Schlosser still remains unavailable in English though, as Gombrich has remarked in correspondence, "many have talked about it!"

We are fortunate indeed that so many of the sources discussed in this essay are now readily available, in whole or in part, in English. Professor Gombrich has suggested that readers of this translation might find a selective list of them useful. The several indispensable anthologies compiled by the late E.G. Holt are highly recommended, especially Literary sources of art history (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1947), more familiar as A documentary history of art (3 vols., Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957- 66; later eds.). Holt's other valuable anthologies include The triumph of art for the public (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books 1979) and The art of all nations (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1981), both volumes devoted to (in the words of their common subtitle) "the emerging role of exhibitions and critics." Further primary sources are available in the several volumes of Prentice- Hall's Sources and documents in the history of art series (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice- Hall, 1965- ). In accordance with Professor Gombrich's broad chronological divisions, we list below some of the more important sources available in translation- - in these and other anthologies, or in their entirety.

Most classical authors, including all the writers mentioned in the text, are available in English translation, with the original Greek or Latin on facing pages, in the many volumes of the Loeb Classical Library, published by the Harvard University Press. Two volumes in Prentice- Hall's series of Sources and documents, both edited by J. J. Pollitt, offer translations of the major literary sources for the history of ancient art: The art of Greece, 1400- 31 B.C. (1965; 2nd ed. 1990) and The art of Rome, 753 B.C.- 337 A.D. (1966). The following may also be helpful:

Pausanias. Pausanias's description of Greece. 6 vols. Trans. with commentary by J.G. Frazer. London: Macmillan, 1898.

________. Guide to Greece. 2 vols. Trans. with an introd. by Peter Levi. New York: Penguin Books, 1971.

Pliny the Elder. The Elder Pliny's chapters on the history of art. Trans. by K. Jex- Blake, with commentary and historical introd. by E. Sellers. 2nd American ed. Chicago: Ares, 1976; reprinted 1982. (First published 1896.)

Vitruvius Pollio. Vitruvius, the ten books on architecture; trans. by Morris Hicky Morgan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1914; reprinted, New York: Dover Books, 1960.

Excerpts in translation from Cennini, Suger, Theophilus and Villard and many other medieval sources are available in Holt, A documentary history of art, volume 1, The Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Three volumes in Prentice- Hall's series of Sources and documents offer further material in translation: Cyril Mango, ed., Art of the Byzantine Empire, 312- 1453 (1972), Caecilia Davis- Weyer, ed., Early medieval art, 300- 1150 (1971), and Teresa G. Frisch, ed., Gothic art, 1140- c.1450 (1971). The following may also be helpful:

Cennini, Cennino. The craftsman's handbook. Trans. by David V. Thompson. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1932; reprinted New York: Dover, 1954.

Suger, Abbot of Saint Denis. Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and its art treasures. Ed., trans. and annot. by Erwin Panofsky. 2nd ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Theophilus. The various arts. Trans. with introd. by C.R. Dodwell. London: Nelson, 1961; reprinted, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

English excerpts from many Renaissance writers- - including several of the writers mentioned in the text, for example, Alberti, Cellini, Dürer, Fazio, Filarete, Ghiberti, Leonardo, Lomazzo, Manetti, Piero della Francesca, Serlio, and Vasari- - are available in E. G. Holt, A documentary history of art, volume 1, The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and volume 2, Michelangelo and the Mannerists, the Baroque and the eighteenth century. Excerpts from further Renaissance writers mentioned in the text may be found in three volumes in Prentice- Hall's series of Sources and documents: Creighton Gilbert, ed., Italian art, 1400- 1500 (1980), Robert Klein and Henri Zerner, eds., Italian art, 1500- 1600 (1966), and Wolfgang Stechow, ed., Northern Renaissance art, 1400- 1600 (1966). The following may also be helpful:

Alberti, Leon Battista. On painting. Trans. by Cecil Grayson; introd. by Martin Kemp. New York: Penguin, 1991. Originally published along with Alberti's book on sculpture in a bilingual Latin- English edition as On painting and on sculpture, ed., trans., introd. and notes by Cecil Grayson. London: Phaidon, 1972.

________. On the art of building in ten books. Trans. by John Rykwert et al. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1990.

Cellini, Benvenuto. The autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini. Trans. and with an introd. by George Bull. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1956.

Condivi, Ascanio. The life of Michelangelo. Trans. by Alice Sedgwick Wohl; ed. by Hellmut Wohl. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976.

________. "Life of Michelangelo," in Michelangelo, life, letters, and poetry. Selected and trans. with an introd. by George Bull. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. (World's Classics)

Dolce, Lodovico. Dolce's "Aretino" and Venetian art theory of the cinquecento. Ed. and trans. Mark Roskill. New York: New York University Press, 1968.

Dürer, Albrecht. The painter's manual: a manual of measurement ... [etc.]. Trans. and with a commentary by Walter L. Strauss. New York: Abaris Books, 1977.

Filarete. Filarete's treatise on architecture. Trans. with an introd. and notes by John R. Spencer. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1965.

Ghiberti, Lorenzo. Commentaries. London: Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, [194?]. (Unpublished translation available from the Institute.)

Hollanda, Francisco de. Four dialogues on painting. Trans. by Aubrey F. G. Bell. London: Oxford University Press, 1928; reprinted, Westport, Ct.: Hyperion Press, 1979.

Horapollo. The hieroglyphics of Horapollo. Trans. by George Boas. New York: Pantheon Books, 1950. (Bollingen series)

Leonardo da Vinci. Treatise on painting [Codex Urbinas Latinus 1270]. Trans. and annot. by A.Philip McMahon. 2 vols. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1956.

Lomazzo, Giovanni Paolo. A tracte containing the artes of curious paintings carvings and buildings. Trans. Richard Haydocke. Reprint of the 1598 ed., Westmead (Eng.): Gregg International, 1970.

Manetti, Antonio. The life of Brunelleschi. Introd., notes, and critical text by Howard Saalman. Trans. by Catherine Enggass. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1970.

Michiel, Marcantonio. The Anonimo; notes on pictures & works of art in Italy made by an anonymous writer in the sixteenth century. Trans. by Paolo Mussi; ed. by George C. Williamson. London: Bell, 1903; reprinted, New York: Blom, 1969.

Palladio, Andrea. The four books of architecture. Reprint of the Isaac Ware trans. (1738), with a new introd. by Adolf K. Placzek, New York: Dover, 1965.

Ripa, Cesare. Baroque and Rococo pictorial imagery. The 1758- 60 Hertel edition of Ripa's "Iconologia." Introd., trans. and commentaries by Edward A. Maser. Reprinted, New York: Dover, 1971.

Scamozzi, Vincenzo. The mirror of architecture ... [etc]. London: Printed for W. Fisher and E. Hurlock, 1676.

Serlio, Sebastiano. The book of architecture by Sebastiano Serlio, London, 1611. Facsimile of the 1611 ed. English trans. of Boooks 1- 5. Introd. by A.E. Santaniello. New York: Blom, 1970; reprinted, New York: Arno, 1980.

________. Sebastiano Serlio on domestic architecture ... the sixteenth-century manuscript of book VI in the Avery Library of Columbia University. Introd. by James Ackerman; text by Myra Nan Rosenfeld. New York: Architectural History Foundation, 1978.

Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the most eminent painters, sculptors & architects. 10 vols. Trans. by Gaston du C. de Vere. London: Macmillan, 1912- 15; reprinted New York: AMS Press, 1976.

________. Lives of the artists. 2 vols. New York: Penguin, 1965- 87. Trans. by George Bull.

English excerpts from many of the writers mentioned in the text- - including Van Mander and Sandrart; Baldinucci and Bellori; Pacheco and Palomino; de Piles, Diderot, Dufresnoy and Le Brun; Hogarth, Reynolds, and Chambers; Goethe, Lessing and Winckelmann- - are available in E. G. Holt, A documentary history of art, volume 1, The Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and volume 2, Michelangelo and the Mannerists, the Baroque and the eighteenth century. Three volumes in Prentice- Hall's series of Sources and documents offer further sources in translation: Wolfgang Stechow, ed., Northern Renaissance art, 1400- 1600 (1966); Robert Engass and Jonathan Brown, eds., Italy and Spain, 1600- 1750 (1970) and Lorenz Eitner, ed., Neoclassicism and romanticism, 1750- 1850, vol. 1, Enlightenment/revolution (1970). The following may also be helpful:

Aglionby, William. Painting illustrated in three diallogues. Reprint of the 1685 ed., Portland, Ore.: Collegium Graphicum, 1972.

Baldinucci, Filippo. The life of Bernini. Transl. by Catherine Enggass. University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1966.

Bellori, Giovanni Pietro. L'idea: the introduction to the Lives of modern painters, sculptors and architects (1672). London: Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, 1960. (Unpublished translation available from the Institute.)

Burke, Edmund. A philosophical enquiry into the origin of our ideas of the sublime and beautiful. Ed. with an introd. by James T. Boulton. Rev. ed. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.

Chambers, William. A treatise on the decorative part of civil architecture. Reprint of the 1791 3rd ed., with a new introd. by John Harris, New York: Blom, 1968.

Du Fresnoy, Charles Alphonse. De arte graphica; The art of painting. London: Printed for J. Heptinstall for W. Rogers, 1695.

Félibien, André. Seven conferences ... London: Printed for T. Cooper, 1740.

Fréart, Roland, sieur de Chambray. An idea of the perfection of painting: demonstrated from the principles of art... London: Herringman, 1668.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. Goethe on art. Selected., ed. and trans. by John Gage. Berkeley, University of California Press, 1980.

Hillyard, Nicholas. Nicholas Hilliard's Art of limning. Transcription by Arthur F. Kinney; commentary and apparatus by Linda Bradley Salamon; foreword by John Pope- Hennessy. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1983.

Hogarth, William. The analysis of beauty. Reprint of the 1753 ed., New York: Garland, 1973.

Knight, Richard Payne. An analytical inquiry into the principles of taste. Reprint of the 1808 4th ed., Westmead (Eng.): Gregg International, 1972.

Lairesse, Gerard de. The art of painting, in all its branches ... Transl. by John Frederick Fritsch. London: Printed for the author, 1738.

Lanzi, Luigi. The history of painting in Italy ... [etc.] 6 vols. London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1828.

Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim. Laocoon: an essay on the limits of painting and poetry. Transl. with an introd. and notes by Edward Allen McCormick. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.

Mander, Carel van. Dutch and Flemish painters. Trans. and introd. by Constant Van de Wall. New York: McFarlane, 1936; reprinted, New York: Arno, 1969. Partial translation.

Mengs, Anton Raphael. The works of Anton Raphael Mengs. Trans. by Don Joseph Nicholas d'Azara. 2 vols. London: Faulder, 1796.

Palomino, Antonio. Lives of the eminent Spanish painters and sculptors; transl. by Nina Mallory. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Piles, Roger de. The art of painting ... [etc.] 2nd ed. London: printed for C. Marsh, 1744.

Pugin, Augustus. Specimens of Gothic architecture ... [etc.] Reprint of the 1821 ed., Cleveland, Ohio: Jansen, 1927.

Reynolds, Joshua. Discourses on art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975. Text of the 1797 ed.

Seroux d'Agincourt, Jean Baptiste Louis Georges. History of art by its monuments... [etc.]. 3 vols. London: Longmans, 1847.

Walpole, Horace. Anecdotes of painting in England. Reprint of the 1876 ed., New York: Arno, 1969.

Winckelmann, Johann Joachim. History of ancient art. New York: Ungar, 1968.

________. Writings on art. Selected and ed. by David Irwin. London: Phaidon, 1972.

Excerpts in translation from many of the 19th- century writers discussed in this essay may be found in Holt, A documentary history of art, vol. 3, From the Classicists to the Impressionists: art and architecture in the nineteenth century, and in two further anthologies compiled by Holt: The triumph of art for the public and The art of all nations, 1850- 73. The following volumes in Prentice- Hall's series of Sources and documents offer further material in translation: Lorenz Eitner, ed., Neoclassicism and romanticism, 1750- 1850, vol. 2, Restoration/twilight of humanism (1970); Linda Nochlin, Realism and tradition in art, 1848- 1900 (1966) and Impressionism and Post- Impressionism, 1874- 1904 (1966). Two further anthologies are rich in 19th- century materials: Joshua C. Taylor, ed., Nineteenth- century theories of art (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987) and Herschel Chipp, ed., Theories of modern art: a source book by artists and critics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1968). The following translations and editions may also be helpful.

Baudelaire, Charles. Baudelaire, selected writings on art and artists. Trans. with an introd. by P. E. Charvet. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.

________. Art in Paris 1845- 1862. Trans. and ed. by Jonathan Mayne. New York: Phaidon, 1965.

Fiedler, Konrad. On judging works of visual art. Trans. by Henry Schaefer- Simmern and Fulmer Mood; introd. Henry Schaefer- Simmern. 2nd ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.

Fromentin, Eugene. The masters of past time: Dutch and Flemish painting from Van Eyck to Rembrandt. Ed. H. Gerson. 2nd ed. Oxford: Phaidon, 1981.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules de. French eighteenth- century painters. Trans. with an introd. by Robin Ironside. 2nd ed. Oxford: Phaidon, 1981.

Wackenroder, Wilhelm. Outpourings of an art- loving friar. Trans. and with an introd. by Edward Mornin. New York: Ungar, 1975.

Wagner, Otto. Modern architecture. Introd. and trans. by Harry Francis Mallgrave. Santa Monica, Calif.: Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities; Chicago: Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, 1988.

Whistler, James McNeill. The gentle art of making enemies. Reprint of the 1892 2nd ed., New York: Dover, 1967.

Chipp's Theories of modern art: a source book by artists and critics (see above) is a rich source of translations. Two series of translations initiated by the late Robert Motherwell also offer key writings on modern art: Documents of modern art (New York: Wittenborn, 1944- 61) and Documents of 20th- century art (New York: Viking, 1971- ). The following may be especially useful:

Apollinaire, Guillaume. The cubist painters: aesthetic meditations, 1913. Trans. by Lionel Abel. 2nd ed. New York: Wittenborn, 1949; reprinted 1970. (Documents of modern art)

Bahr, Hermann. Expressionism. Trans. by R. T. Gribble. London: Henderson, 1925.

Berenson, Bernard. Aesthetics and history in the visual arts. New York: Pantheon, 1948; reprinted, St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1979.

Breton, Andre. Surrealism and painting. Trans. by Simon Watson Taylor. New Yoek: Harper & Row, 1972.

Kandinsky, Wassily. Concerning the spiritual in art. Sadleir trans., with revisions by Francis Golffing et al. New York: Wittenborn, 1972. (Documents of modern art)

Malraux, André. The psychology of art. Trans. by Stuart Gilbert. 3 vols. New York: Pantheon, 1949- 50. (Bollingen series)

Sedlmayr, Hans. Art in crisis, the lost center. Trans. by Brian Battershaw. Chicago: Regnery, 1958.