For Art History Research at the GC Library, you can see Amy Ballmer ( [email protected] / 212.817.7059) and visit: http://libguides.gc.cuny.edu/arthistory
You may find these works helpful for your research and additional reading. This list is by no means comprehensive.
Topography – General Works
- Steinby, Eva Margareta. 1993-2000. Lexicon topographicum urbis Romae. Roma: Edizioni Quasar. (NYPL and MET have; major work on the Topography of Rome, multiple languages)***
- Richardson, Lawrence. 1992. A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (GC Reserve)
- Platner, Samuel B. 1929. A topographical dictionary of ancient Rome. Completed and revised by Thomas Ashby. London: Oxford Univ. Press. –http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/PLATOP*/home.html
- Oxford Bibliographies (online): Classics, log on via the Mina Rees Website – Extensive bibliographies on many classical subjects, including topograph
- Hill, Philip V. 1989. The monuments of ancient Rome as coin types. London: Trafalgar Square.
- Lugli, Giuseppe. 1952–1969. Fontes ad topographiam veteris urbis Romae. 7 vols. Rome: Univ. di Roma Istituto di Topografia Antica.
Roman Architecture – General Works
- Gros, Pierre. 1996. L’architecture romaine: du début du IIIe siècle av. J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire. Paris: Picard. (2 Vols).
- Boëthius, Axel, 1978. Etruscan and early Roman architecture. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books.
- Stamper, John W. 2005. The architecture of Roman temples: the republic to the middle empire. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
- Ward-Perkins, J. B. 1981. Roman imperial architecture. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books.
- Wilson Jones, Mark. 2000. Principles of Roman architecture. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale Univ. Press.
Roman History – General Works
- Cambridge Ancient Histories (available via the Mina Rees Website, under Cambridge Histories Online, Vol. 7 and later is Rome)
Roman Art – General Works
- D’Ambra, Eve. 1998. Roman art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Stewart, Peter. 2004. Roman art. Oxford: Published for the Classical Association by Oxford University Press.
- Ling, Roger. 1991. Roman painting. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.
- Elsner, Jas. 1998. Imperial Rome and Christian triumph: the art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Beard, Mary, and John Henderson. 2001. Classical art: from Greece to Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- Kleiner, Diana E. E. 1992. Roman sculpture. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.
Online Resources (available via the Mina Rees Website):
- Oxford Bibliographies Online – Classics – various topics
- Cambridge Histories Online – Cambridge Ancient History
- L’Année philologique – bibliography of recent classics publicatiosn
- Artstor.org – 1.4 million images of art and architecture
Other Online Resources
- Perseus – various digitized texts and some images http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
- Topographia Urbis Romae – http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/home.html
- Lacus Curtis – Major website for Rome – http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html
- The Ancient World Online ( AWOL) – excellent daily email about new online resources – http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
- Metropolitan Museum of Art – http://www.metmuseum.org/en/about-the-museum/museum-departments/curatorial-departments/greek-and-roman-art http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/galleries/greek-and-roman/171
- Making Roman art – https://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/
- Digital Classicist – http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html
- Digital Classics Association – http://dca.drupalgardens.com/
- CIL – http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/index_en.html
Major Journals
- Journal of Roman Archaeology – http://www.journalofromanarch.com/index.html (not digitized, but MET and NYPL have)
- American Journal of Archaeology – http://www.ajaonline.org/ (also Jstor)
- Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians http://ucpressjournals.com/journal.php?j=jsah (also Jstor)
- Journal of Roman Studies – http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JRS (also Jstor)
- Papers of the British School at Rome – http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=rom (also Jstor)
- Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome – http://www.press.umich.edu/browse/series/UM96 (also Jstor)
- Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung
- Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome
- Mélanges de l’École française de Rome, Antiquité
- Memorie. Atti della Pontificia Accademia romana di archeologia
- Bulletin antieke beschaving. Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
- Bullettino della Commissione archeologica Comunale di Roma
- See the AJA for abbreviations of Major Journals, http://www.ajaonline.org/submissions/abbreviations#B


