Visual Order to Organizing Collections

Béguin, Sylvie, ed. Le studiolo d'Isabelle d'Este: Catalogue. Paris: Edition des Musées Nationaux, 1975.

Besson, Alain. Medieval Classification and Cataloguing from the Twelfth to Fifteenth Centuries. Biggleswade, U.K.: Clover, 1980.

Chartier, Roger . The Order of Books: Readers, Authors, and Libraries in Europe between the Fourteenth and Eighteenth Centuries. Translated by Lydia. G. Cochrane. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1994.

Cheles, Luciano. The Studiolo of Urbino: An Iconographic Investigation. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1986.

Clark, John. The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their Fittings, from the Earliest Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1901.

Findlen, Paula. Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting, and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.

Garberson, Eric. "Biblotheca Windhagiana: A Seventeenth-Century Austrian Library and Its Decoration." Journal of the History of Collections 5, no. 2 (1993): 109–128.

Gulik, W. R. Van et al., eds. From Field-Case to Show-Case: Research, Acquisition, and Presentation in the Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde (National Museum of Ethnology) Leiden. Amsterdam: Gieben, 1980.

Hall, Marcia, ed. Raphael's "School of Athens." Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1997. See especially pp. 6–13.

Hobson, Anthony. Great Libraries. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1970.

Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. Museums and the Shaping of Knowledge. London: Routledge, 1992.

Horowitz, Maryanne. "Humanist Horticulture: Twelve Agricultural Months and Twelve Categories of Books in Piero de' Medici's Studiolo." Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies 34 (2003): 272–307.

——. Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998. See especially pp. 120–128 on Chambre du Cerf, Tour de la Garde-Robe, Palais des Papes, Avignon.

Hudson, Kenneth. Museums of Influence. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1987.

Impey, Oliver, and Arthur MacGregor, eds. The Origins of Museums: The Cabinet of Curiosities in Sixteenth-and Seventeenth-Century Europe. Oxford: Clarendon, 1985.

Kobayashi, Takeshi. Nara Buddhist Art: Todai-ji. Translated and adapted by Richard L. Gage. New York: Weatherhill, 1975.

Liebenwein, Wolfgang. Studiolo: Die Entstehung eines Raumtyps und seine Entwicklung bis um 1600. Berlin: Mann, 1977.

Makowiecka, Elzbieta. The Origin and Evolution of Architectural Form of Roman Library. Warsaw: Wydawnictwa University, 1978.

Masson, André. Le décor des bibliothèques du Moyen Age à la Révolution. Geneva: Droz, 1972.

——. The Pictorial Catalogue: Mural Decoration in Libraries. Translated by David Gerard. Oxford: Clarendon, 1981.

Pomian, Krzysztof. Collectors and Curiosities: Paris and Venice, 1500–1800. Translated by Elizabeth Wiles-Portier. Cambridge, U.K.: Polity, 1990.

Raggio, Olga. "The Liberal Arts Studiolo from the Ducal Palace at Gubbio." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 53 (spring 1996).

Ricciardi, Maria Luisa. Biblioteche dipinte: Una storia nelle immagini. Rome: Bulzoni, 1996.

Rogers, David. The Bodleian Library and Its Treasures, 1320–1720. Henley-on-Thames, U.K.: Aidan Ellis, 1991.

Schaer, Roland. Tous les saviors du monde: Encyclopédies et bibliothèques, de Sumer au XXIe siècle. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale/Flammarion, 1996.

Signorelli, Luigi. The Palazzo Vecchio and the Piazza della Signoria: Handbook and Itinerary. Translated by Hilda M. R. Cox. Florence, Italy: Arnaud, 1952.

Smith, Bonnie G. "Gender and the Practices of Scientific History." American Historical Review 100 (1995): 1150–1176.

Staikos, Konstantinos Sp. The Great Libraries from Antiquity to the Renaissance. London: Oak Knoll Press and the British Library, 2000.

Stam, David H., ed. International Dictionary of Library Histories. 2 vols. Chicago: Dearborn, 2001. See especially Edwin Wolff II, "Library Buildings," and Mohamed Taher, "Islamic Libraries."

Tite, Colin G. C. The Manuscript Library of Sir Robert Cotton. London: The British Library, 1994.

Ventura, Leandro, Daniela Ferrari et al. Isabella d'Este: I luoghi del collezionismo: Mantova, Palazzo ducale, appartamenti isabelliani. Modena: Bulino, 1995.

Verheyen, Egon. The Paintings in the Studiolo of Isabella d'Este at Mantua. New York: New York University Press, 1971.

Maryanne Cline Horowitz