Architecture, from Prehistory to Postmodernity (book)
Trachtenberg, Marvin
-- Your basic, huge architectural history textbook.
A History of Architecture (book)
Fletcher, Sir Banister and others
-- Another massive survey of architecture that contains black & white line drawings and photos that reproduce quite nicely.
Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture (book)
Sennott, R. Stephen (ed.)
-- Substantial articles on people, firms, professional practice, building types, buildings, sites, cities, countries, influential unbuilt projects, materials, technologies, planning, movements, and styles.
Encyclopedia of Gardens : History and Design (book)
Shoemaker, Candice A.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (electronic resource)
-- Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) contains searchable full-text of several encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources in many different subject fields. One title of particular interest to students in Rome is:
Arts & Humanities Through the Eras (electronic resource)
Thomson Gale (Firm)
-- Consisting of five volumes: 1)Ancient Egypt 2)Ancient Greece & Rome 3)Medieval Europe 4)Renaissance Europe 5)The Age of the Baroque and Enlightenment
Historical Dictionary of Architecture (book)
Palmer, Allison Lee
Oxford Art Online (electronic resource)
-- Oxford Art Online provides web access to the entire text of The Dictionary of Art (1996) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art (2001). Covers all cultures from prehistory to the 1990s. Over 1,500 thumbnail art images and line drawings are displayed in the text of 45,000 articles. Contains links to searchable image databases and over 40,000 art images on museum and gallery web sites around the world. Updated continuously.
Oxford Companion to the Garden (book)
Oxford Companion to the Garden (electronic resource)
Taylor, Patrick
--Articles on nearly 1000 famous gardens worldwide, from ancient legend to recent land art. Also designers, themes, etc.
-- Also available as a database via Oxford Reference Online.
Oxford Reference Online (electronic resource)
-- Brings together over 100 dictionary, encyclopedia, language, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press in a single cross-searchable resource. This contains several titles of interest to students in Rome including: Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization, Oxford Dictionary of the Saints, Oxford Companion to Western Art, Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary, etc.
World Architecture 1900-2000: A Critical Mosaic (book)
Frampton, Kenneth (ed.)
-- A visual compilation of major buildings of the century with location, key credits, dates, and a few paragraphs explaining significance. Very unusual for its thoroughly international scope with separate volumes on North America, Latin America, Europe, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia and Oceana.
