Chapter II · —SIENA
Reading edition
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.
476Painting, 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.
Bernard Berenson, Central Italian Painters of the Renaissance, New York and London, 1909.
C. Ricci, Il Palazzo Pubblico di Siena e la Mostra d’Antica Arte Senese, Bergamo, 1904, offers a good and inexpensive survey of Sienese handicraft in general.
Sienese Pictures in the United States. Consult the illustrated catalogues of the Fogg Museum, Harvard; and of the Jarves Collection, Yale. Also many special articles in Art in America, especially the series in Vol. VIII-IX, by F. Mason Perkins, Some Sienese Paintings in American Collections.