A history of Italian painting

by Frank Jewett Mather

The very elaborate decoration of the Spanish Chapel is fully described in C. &. C. (Hutton) Vol. I., pp. 309–312. There are useful literary illustrations in Venturi, Storia dell’ arte italiana, Vol. V., pp. 792–809. Ruskin in Mornings in Florence gives a partial analysis which is fascinating from a literary point of view, but badly overestimates the merit of the work.

CHAPTER II.—SIENA

General Works:

Langton Douglas. A History of Siena. New York, 1902.

Ferdinand Schevill. Siena, the Story of a Mediæval Commune, New York, 1909.

Edmund G. Gardiner. The Story of Siena and San Gemignano, London, 1902.

William Heywood and Lucy Olcott. Guide to Siena, History and Art, London, 1903.

Painting, the School.

Emil Jacobsen. Sienesische Meister des Trecento in der Gemälde Galerie zu Siena, Strassburg, 1907; Das Quattrocento in Siena, Strassburg, 1908; Sodoma und das Cinquecento in Siena, Strassburg, 1910; all very valuable for illustrations.

Venturi, Storia dell’ Arte Italiana, Vols. V and VII.