Renaissance Art

Part of UCLA Library Special Collections, the Elmer Belt Library is a special collection of books and materials concerning Leonardo da Vinci and the Italian Renaissance. The Library was given to UCLA in 1961 by Dr. Elmer Belt, a Professor Emeritus in the UCLA School of Medicine and a collector of Vinciana for over sixty years.

An an interdisciplinary research database containing documentation centering on the reception of antiquity during the Renaissance. The antique monuments known in the Renaissance are registered together with related Renaissance documents (texts and images), and information about locations, persons, periods, and bibliographic data. The Census is useful for art history and archaeology research, and for understanding the afterlife of antiquity.

Arts Library
N6370 .R375 2007

Arts Library
ND623.B8 S52m

YRL
** G140 .B725 1991

Provides global access to digitized art history texts in the public domain. Through this multilingual, multicultural union catalog, scholars can search and download complete digital copies of publications for the study of art, architecture, material culture, and related fields. Includes digitized rare books and manuscripts like Giorgio Vasari's Vies des peintres, sculpteurs et architectes.

Digital copy of Italian edition of Vasari's Lives of the Artists, published in Florence in 1550

Digital copy. Translator: Gaston du C. de Vere. Published: London: MacMillan and Co. Ld.& The Medici Society, Ld. 1912-14