Other Resources

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

  1. 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)***
  2. Richardson, Lawrence. 1992. A new topographical dictionary of ancient Rome. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. (GC Reserve)
  3. 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
  4. Oxford Bibliographies (online): Classics, log on via the Mina Rees Website – Extensive bibliographies on many classical subjects, including topograph
  5. Hill, Philip V. 1989. The monuments of ancient Rome as coin types. London: Trafalgar Square.
  6. Lugli, Giuseppe. 1952–1969. Fontes ad topographiam veteris urbis Romae. 7 vols. Rome: Univ. di Roma Istituto di Topografia Antica.

 Roman Architecture – General Works

  1. Gros, Pierre. 1996. L’architecture romaine: du début du IIIe siècle av. J.-C. à la fin du Haut-Empire. Paris: Picard. (2 Vols).
  2. Boëthius, Axel, 1978. Etruscan and early Roman architecture. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books.
  3. Stamper, John W. 2005. The architecture of Roman temples: the republic to the middle empire. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Ward-Perkins, J. B. 1981. Roman imperial architecture. Harmondsworth, Eng: Penguin Books.
  5. Wilson Jones, Mark. 2000. Principles of Roman architecture. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale Univ. Press.

Roman History – General Works

  1. Cambridge Ancient Histories (available via the Mina Rees Website, under Cambridge Histories Online, Vol. 7 and later is Rome)

Roman Art – General Works

  1. D’Ambra, Eve. 1998. Roman art. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  2. Stewart, Peter. 2004. Roman art. Oxford: Published for the Classical Association by Oxford University Press.
  3. Ling, Roger. 1991. Roman painting. Cambridge [England]: Cambridge University Press.
  4. Elsner, Jas. 1998. Imperial Rome and Christian triumph: the art of the Roman Empire AD 100-450. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  5. Beard, Mary, and John Henderson. 2001. Classical art: from Greece to Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  6. Kleiner, Diana E. E. 1992. Roman sculpture. New Haven, CT: Yale Univ. Press.

Online Resources (available via the Mina Rees Website):

  1. Oxford Bibliographies Online – Classics – various topics
  2. Cambridge Histories Online – Cambridge Ancient History
  3. L’Année philologique – bibliography of recent classics publicatiosn
  4. Artstor.org – 1.4 million images of art and architecture

Other Online Resources

  1. Perseus – various digitized texts and some images http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/
  2. Topographia Urbis Romae – http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Europe/Italy/Lazio/Roma/Rome/_Texts/home.html
  3. Lacus Curtis – Major website for Rome – http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/home.html
  4. The Ancient World Online ( AWOL) – excellent daily email about new online resources – http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/
  5. 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
  6. Making Roman art – https://www.artofmaking.ac.uk/
  7. Digital Classicist – http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html
  8. Digital Classics Association – http://dca.drupalgardens.com/
  9. CIL – http://cil.bbaw.de/cil_en/index_en.html

Major Journals

  1. Journal of Roman Archaeology – http://www.journalofromanarch.com/index.html (not digitized, but MET and NYPL have)
  2. American Journal of Archaeologyhttp://www.ajaonline.org/ (also Jstor)
  3. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians http://ucpressjournals.com/journal.php?j=jsah (also Jstor)
  4. Journal of Roman Studies – http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JRS (also Jstor)
  5. Papers of the British School at Rome – http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=rom (also Jstor)
  6. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome – http://www.press.umich.edu/browse/series/UM96 (also Jstor)
  7. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung
  8. Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome
  9. Mélanges de l’École française de Rome, Antiquité
  10. Memorie. Atti della Pontificia Accademia romana di archeologia
  11. Bulletin antieke beschaving. Annual Papers on Classical Archaeology
  12. Bullettino della Commissione archeologica Comunale di Roma
  13. See the AJA for abbreviations of Major Journals, http://www.ajaonline.org/submissions/abbreviations#B

 

 

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