Bibliography

Balus, Wojciech. "Dureris Melencolia I: Melancholy and the Undecidable." Artibus et Historiae 15, no. 30 (1994): 9-21.

Grigg, Robert. "Studies on Durer's Diary of his Journey to the Netherlands: The Distribution of the Melencolia I." Zeitschrift fur Kunstgeschichte 49, no. 3 (1986): 398-409.

Sohm, Philip L. "Dureris Melencolia I: The Limits of Knowledge." Studies in the History of Art IX (1980): 13-32.

Dürer

Boorsch, Suzanne and Nadine M. Orenstein. "The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Durer and Lucas van Leyden." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 55 (1997): 3-12.

Eichberger, Dagmar and Charles Zika, eds. Durer and his Culture. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Eisler, Colin T. Durer's Animals. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.

Hutchison, Jane Campbell. Albrecht Durer: A Biography. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1990; paperback edition, 1992.

Panofsky, Erwin. The Life and Art of Albrecht Durer, 4th ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1955.

Russell, Francis. The World of Durer, 1471-1528. New York: Time-Life Books, 1973.

Strieder, Peter. Albrecht Durer: Paintings, Prints, Drawings, rev. ed. Nancy M. Gordon and Walter L. Strauss, trans. New York: Abaris Books, 1989.

Nuremberg

Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550. Munich: Prestel-Verlag; New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1986.

Schedel, Hartmann. The Nuremberg Chronicle: A Facsimile of Hartmann Schedelis Buch der Chroniken. Printed by Anton Koberger in 1493. New York: Landmark Press, 1979.

Smith, Jeffrey Chipps. Nuremberg, a Renaissance City, 1500-1618. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983.

Printmaking

Bartrum, Giulia. German Renaissance Prints, 1490-1550. London: British Museum Press, 1995.

Gascoigne, Bamber. How to Identify Prints: A Complete Guide to Manual and Mechanical Processes from Woodcut to Ink Jet. London: Thames and Hudson, 1986.

Griffiths, Antony. Prints and Printmaking: An Introduction to the History and Techniques. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996.

Hind, Arthur M. A History of Engraving & Etching: From the 15th Century to the Year 1914; Being the Third and Fully Revised Edition of iA Short History of Engraving and Etching. New York: Dover Publications, 1963.

Hults, Linda C. The Print in the Western World: An Introductory History. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1996.

James, Carlo and et al. Old Master Prints and Drawings: A Guide to Preservation and Conservation. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 1997.

Landau, David and Peter Parshall. The Renaissance Print, 1470-1550. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994.

Longstreet, Stephen. A Treasury of the World's Great Prints: A Collection of the Best-Known Woodcuts, Etchings, Engravings, and Lithographs by Twenty-Three Great Artists, Selected and Presented by Stephen Longstreet. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961.

General

Clark, Kenneth. Civilisation: A Personal View. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.

Gardner, Helen. Art Through the Ages, 10th ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace, 1996.

Hall, James. Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, rev. ed. New York: Harper & Row, 1979.

Jamison, Kay Redfield. Touched with Fire: Manic-Depressive Illness and the Artistic Temperament. New York: Free Press, 1993.

Koerner, Joseph Leo. The Moment of Self-Portraiture in German Renaissance Art. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993; paperback edition, 1996.

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