Selected Bibliography on Cassoni

Alberti, Leon Battista. The Family in Renaissance Florence. trans. Renee Neu Watkins. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1969.

Barriault, Anne B. Spalliera Paintings of Renaissance Tuscany: Fables of Poets for Patrician Homes. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1994.

Baskins, Cristelle. "Griselda, or the Renaissance Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelor in Tuscan Cassone Painting," Stanford Italian Review 10 (1992): 153-75. Read a review of this article

Baskins, Cristelle. "Typology, Sexuality and the Renaissance Esther." in Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe, James G. Turner. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993: 31-54.

Baskins, Cristelle. "Gender Trouble in the Italian Renaissance." Studies in Iconography 16 (1994): 1-36.

Baskins, Cristelle. Cassone Painting, Humanism and Gender in early modern Italy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

Baskins, Cristelle. "Il Trionfo della Pudicizia: Menacing Virgins in Italian Renaissance Domestic Painting." in Menacing Virgins: Representing Virginity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Kelly, Kathleen Coyne and Marina Leslie, eds. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1999.

Baxandall, Michael. Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1972.

Callmann, Ellen. Apollonio di Giovanni. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.

Callmann, Ellen. "The Growing Threat to Marital Bliss as Seen in Fifteenth-Century Florentine Paintings." Studies in Iconography 5 (1979): 73-92.

Callmann, Ellen. Beyond Nobility: Art for the Private Citizen in the Early Renaissance. Allentown, PA: Allentown Art Museum, 1980.

Callmann, Ellen. "Apollonio di Giovanni and Painting for the Early Renaissance Room." Antichità viva 27 no. 3-4 (1988): 5-18.

Callmann, Ellen. "Subjects from Boccaccio in Italian Painting, 1375-1525" Studi sul Boccaccio, Firenze: Sansoni Editore, 23 (1995): 19-78.

Callmann, Ellen. "William Blundell Spence and the Transformation of Renaissance Cassoni." The Burlington Magazine 141 (June 1999): 338-48.

Callmann, Ellen. "Masolino da Panicale and Florentine Cassoni Painting." Apollo 150 no.450 (1999): 42-9.

Faenson, Liubov. Italian Cassoni from Soviet Museum Collections. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983.

Ferrari, Maria Luisa. Cassoni Rinascimentali. Milan: Arti Grafiche Ricordi, 1964.

Goldthwaite, Richard. "The Florentine Palace as Domestic Architecture." The American Historical Review 77 no.4 (1972): 977-1012.

Goldthwaite, Richard. "The Empire of Things: Consumer Demand in Renaissance Italy." in Patronage, Art and Society in Renaissance Italy. F. W. Kent, Patricia Simons, and J.C Eade. eds. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987: 153-74.

Goldthwaite, Richard. Wealth and the Demand for Art in Italy 1300-1600. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.

Gregory, Heather. "Daughters, Dowries and the Family in Fifteenth-Century Florence." Rinascimento 27 (1987): 215-37.

Hughes, Diane Owen. "From Bride-Price to Dowry in Mediterranean Europe." Journal of Family History 3 (1978): 262-298.

Hughes, Diane Owen. "Sumptuary laws and Human Relations in Renaissance Italy," in Disputes and Settlements: Law and Human Relations in the West. John Bossy, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Hughes, Graham. Renaissance Cassoni: Masterpieces of Early Italian Art. London: Art Books International, 1997.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane. Women, Family and Ritual in Renaissance Italy. trans. Lydia Cochrane. Chicago and London: Univerity of Chicago Press, 1985.

Klapisch-Zuber, Christiane and David Herlihy. The Tuscans and Their Families: A Study of the Florentine Castato of 1427. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.

Lydecker, John Kent. The Domestic Setting of the Arts in Renaissance Florence. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.

Schubring, Paul. Cassoni Truhen und Truhenbilder der italienischen Fruhrenaissance. Ein Beitrag zur Profanmalerei in Quattrocento. Leipzig: Verlag von Kar W. Hierseman, 1923.

Thornton, Peter. "Cassoni, Forzieri, Goffani, and Cassette: Terminology and Its Problems." Apollo 120 (1984): 246-51.

Thornton, Peter. The Italian Renaissance Interior, 1400-1600. New York: Abrams, 1991.

Tinagli, Paola. Women in Italian Renaissance Art; Gender, Representation and Identity. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997.

Todorow, Maria Fossi. Palazzo Davanzati. Florence: Lo Studiolo Cooperativa, 1979.

Vasari, Giorgio. Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects. trans. Gaston du C. de Vere. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1912 (reprinted 1996).

Wackernagel, Martin. The World of the Florentine Renaissance Artist: projects and patrons, workshop and art market. trans. Alison Luchs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1981.

Witthoft, Brucia. "Marriage Rituals and Marriage Chests in Quattrocento Florence." Artibus et Historiae 5 (1982): 43-59.

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