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    Bibliography   

For Younger Students

King, Penny and Clare Roundhill.  Portraits.  New York:

      Crabtree Publishing Company, 1996.

Richardson, Joy.  Looking at Faces in Art.  Milwaukee:

      Gareth Stevens, 2000.

Rohmer, Harriet, ed.  Just Like Me: Stories and Self-Portraits

      by Fourteen Artists.  San Francisco: Childrens Book

      Press, 1997.

Rowland-Warne, L.  Costume.  New York: Dorling Kindersley

      Publishing, Inc., 1992.

Van Wie, Nancy Ann.  Mystery at the White House: A

       President is Missing!.  Max’s Publications, 1998.

Waldman, Neil.  The Starry Night.   Honesdale, PA: Boyds

      Mills Press, 1999.

General Portraiture

Brilliant, Richard.  Portraiture.  Cambridge: Harvard University

      Press, 1991.

De Salvo, Donna.  Face Value: American Portraits.

      Southampton: The Parrish Art Museum, 1995. 

Livingstone, Margaret.  Vision and Art: The Biology of

      Seeing.  New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2002.

Wilkinson, Philip.  Faces.  Ed. Alison Cole.  New York: Peter

      Bedrick Books, 2000.

Woodall, Joanna, ed.  Portraiture: Facing the Subject.

      Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997.

Symbolism

Smith Pierce, James.  From Abacus to Zeus: A Handbook

      of Art History.  6^th ed.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey:

       Prentice Hall, 2000.

Hall, James A.  Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art.

      New York: HarperCollins, 1979.

Portraiture of Different Eras

Bedaux, Jan Baptist and Rudi Ekkart, eds.  Pride and Joy:

      Children’s Portraits in the Netherlands, 1500-1700.  New

      York: Harry N. Abrams, 2001.

Fisher, Leonard Everett.  The Limners: America’s Earliest

      Portrait Painters.  New York: Benchmark Books, 2000.

Pointon, Marcia.  Hanging the Head: Portraiture and Social

      Formation in Eighteenth Century England.  New Haven:

      Yale University Press, 1998.

McPherson, Heather.  The Modern Portrait in Nineteenth

     Century France.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

      2001.

Woods-Marsden, Joanna.  Renaissance Self-Portraiture: The

      Visual Construction of Identity and the Social Status of

      the Artist.  New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999.

Portraits by Specific Artists

Brown, David Alan, ed.  Virtue and Beauty: Leonardo’s

      Ginevra de’ Benci and Renaissance Portraits of Women.

      Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.

De Bie and Martijn Leenen.  See and Do Children’s Book:

      Rembrandt.  Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2001.

De Bie and Martijn Leenen.  See and Do Children’s Book:

      Vincent van Gogh.  Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum,

      2002. 

Greenberg, Jan and Sandra Jordan.  Chuck Close, Up

       Close.   New York: DK Publishing, 1998.

Klein, John.  Matisse Portraits.  New Haven: Yale University

      Press, 2001.

Koerner, Joseph Leo.  The Moment of Self-Portraiture in

      German Renaissance Art. Chicago: University of Chicago

      Press, 1996.

Strand, Claudia.  Hello, Fruit Face!: The Paintings of

      Guiseppe Arcimboldo.  Trans. Michele Schons.   New

      York: Prestel Publishing, 1999.

Tinterow, Gary and Philip Conisbee.  Portraits by Ingres:

      Image of an Epoch.  New Haven: Yale University Press,

      1999.

Williams, Julie Lloyd, ed.  Rembrandt’s Women.  New York:

      Prestel USA, 2001.

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