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• The Gothic: Literary Sources and Interpretations Through Eight Centuries (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c1960), by Paul Frankl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Idealismus und Naturalismus in der Gotischen Skulptur und Malerei (in German; Munich and Berlin: R. Oldenbourg, 1918), by Max Dvořák (page images at HathiTrust)

• Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2005), ed. by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiří Fajt, contrib. by Robert Suckale, Paul Crossle, Zoë Opač̌ić, Vivian B. Mann, Gerhard Schmidt, Jan Royt, and Ernő Marosi (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Royal Abbey of Saint-Denis in the Time of Abbot Suger (1122-1151) (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1981), contrib. by Sumner McK. Crosby, Jane Hayward, Charles T. Little, and William D. Wixom (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550 (Munich: Prestel-Verlag; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1986), by Rainer Kahsnitz and William D. Wixom, contrib. by Martin Angerer, Guy Bauman, Barbara Drake Boehm, Rainer Brandl, Jane Hayward, Timothy Husband, Walter J. Karcheski, Kurt Löcher, Otto Lohr, Hermann Maué, Helmut Nickel, Klaus Pechstein, Rainer Schoch, Alfred Wendehorst, Leonie von Wilckens, and Johannes Karl Wilhelm Willers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Medieval Monuments at The Cloisters as They Were and as They Are (revised edition; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1972), by James J. Rorimer and Katherine Serrell Rorimer (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Künstler und Werkstatt der Spätgotik (in German; Augsburg: Dr. Filser Verlag, 1923), by Hans Huth (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ancient and Medieval Art: A Short History (London: Methuen and Co., c1914), by Margaret H. Bulley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient and Medieval Art: A Short History (New York: The Macmillan Co., 1914), by Margaret H. Bulley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Arts in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (London: J. S. Virtue and Co., ca. 1886), by P. L. Jacob and Walter Armstrong, illust. by Franz Kellerhoven (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mural Paintings in English Churches During the Middle Ages: An Introductory Essay on the Folk Influence in Religious Art (London: J. Lane, c1923), by Frank Kendon
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Study-Book of Mediaeval Architecture and Art: Being a Series of Working Drawings of the Principal Monuments of the Middle Ages, Whereof the Plans, Sections, and Details Are Drawn to Uniform Scales (4 volumes; London: H. Sotheran and Co.. 1868), by T. H. King
  • Volume I: multiple formats at Google
  • Volumes II-IV: page images at HathiTrust

• The Cloisters: Studies in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1992), ed. by Elizabeth C. Parker, contrib. by Mary B. Shepard (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843-1261) (New York: Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 2013), ed. by Olenka Z. Pevny, contrib. by Ihor Ševčenko, Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot, IU. A. Piatnitskii, V. N. Zalesskaia, Etele Kiss, Thomas Steppan, Li︠u︡dmyla Mili︠a︡i︠e︡va, Elka Bakalova, Guglielmo Cavallo, Panagiōtēs L. Vokotopoulos, Włodzimierz Godlewski, Nodar Lomouri, and Kiti Mač'abeli (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Perceptions of Byzantium and Its Neighbors (843-1261) (New York: Metropolitan Museum Of Art, 2013), ed. by Olenka Z. Pevny, contrib. by Ihor Ševčenko, Alice-Mary Maffry Talbot, IU. A. Piatnitskii, V. N. Zalesskaia, Etele Kiss, Thomas Steppan, Li︠u︡dmyla Mili︠a︡i︠e︡va, Elka Bakalova, Guglielmo Cavallo, Panagiōtēs L. Vokotopoulos, Włodzimierz Godlewski, Nodar Lomouri, and Kiti Mač'abeli (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Prague, the Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, c2005), ed. by Barbara Drake Boehm and Jiří Fajt, contrib. by Robert Suckale, Paul Crossle, Zoë Opač̌ić, Vivian B. Mann, Gerhard Schmidt, Jan Royt, and Ernő Marosi (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Medieval Art from Private Collections: A Special Exhibition at The Cloisters, October 30, 1968 Through March 30, 1969 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1968), by Carmen Gómez-Moreno (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• Radiance and Reflection: Medieval Art from the Raymond Pitcairn Collection (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982), by Jane Hayward and Walter Cahn (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1997), ed. by Helen C. Evans and William D. Wixom, contrib. by Speros Vryonis, Thomas F. Mathews, Jeffrey C. Anderson, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Henry Maguire, Robert G. Ousterhout, Ioli Kalavrezou, Olenka Z. Pevny, Joseph D. Alchermes, S. Peter Cowe, Thelma K. Thomas, Jaroslav Folda, and Priscilla Parsons Soucek (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Gothic and Renaissance Art in Nuremberg, 1300-1550 (Munich: Prestel-Verlag; New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1986), by Rainer Kahsnitz and William D. Wixom, contrib. by Martin Angerer, Guy Bauman, Barbara Drake Boehm, Rainer Brandl, Jane Hayward, Timothy Husband, Walter J. Karcheski, Kurt Löcher, Otto Lohr, Hermann Maué, Helmut Nickel, Klaus Pechstein, Rainer Schoch, Alfred Wendehorst, Leonie von Wilckens, and Johannes Karl Wilhelm Willers (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1992), ed. by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• The Middle Ages in the Athenian Agora (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1961), by Alison Frantz (page images at Google)

• The Cloisters: Medieval Art and Architecture (New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2005), by Peter Barnet and Nancy Y. Wu (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Dumbarton Oaks Papers (full serial archives)

• Dumbarton Oaks Papers (full serial archives)
• Deltion tēs Christianikīs Archaiologikīs Etaireias (in Greek) (partial serial archives)

• The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. 500-1200 (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1993), by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Al-Andalus: The Art of Islamic Spain (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1992), ed. by Jerrilynn Denise Dodds (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org and Google)

• Medieval Art: A Resource for Educators (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2005), by Michael Norris (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• A Masterwork of Byzantine Art: The David Plates: The Story of David and Goliath (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c2001), by Esther M. Morales, Alice W. Schwarz, Michael Norris, and Edith W. Watts (PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• Byzantine Mosaics in Greece: Hosios Lucas and Daphni (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1931), by Ernst Diez and Otto Demus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Constantinople: De Byzance à Stamboul (in French; Paris: H. Laurens, 1909), by Celâl Esad Arseven, contrib. by Charles Diehl (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Manuel d'Art Byzantin (in French; Paris: A. Picard et fils, 1910), by Charles Diehl
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Mélanges d'Archéologie Byzantine: Monnaies, Médailles, Méreaux, Jetons, Amulettes, Bulles d'or et de Plomb, Poids de Verre et de Bronze, Ivoires, Objets d'Orfèvrerie, Bagues, Religuaires, etc. (first and apparently only series, in French; Paris: E. Leroux, 1895), by Gustave Léon Schlumberger (page images at HathiTrust)

• Age of Spirituality: A Symposium (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1980), ed. by Kurt Weitzmann, contrib. by Hans-Georg Beck, Beat Brenk, Peter Brown, George M. A. Hanfmann, Ernst Kitzinger, Richard Krautheimer, Arnaldo Momigliano, Ihor Ševčenko, and Massey Hamilton Shepherd (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)
• The Cloisters Apocalypse: An Early Fourteenth-Century Manuscript in Facsimile (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971), contrib. by Florens Deuchler, Jeffrey Hoffeld, and Helmut Nickel (PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, c1979), ed. by Kurt Weitzmann (page images and PDF with commentary at metmuseum.org)

• The Cloisters Cross: Its Art and Meaning (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams, c1994), by Elizabeth C. Parker and Charles T. Little (page images and PDF at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)

• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Pamela Z. Blum (HTML at UC Press)

• Claude Monet: The Water-Lilies; and Other Writings on Art (Urbana, IL: Windsor and Downs Press; 2017), by Georges Clemenceau, trans. by Bruce Michelson (illustrated HTML and Epub with commentary at Illinois)
• A. Hyatt Mayor: Selected Writings and a Bibliography (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1983), by A. Hyatt Mayor (page images and PDF with commentary at Metropolitan Museum of Art and Google)
• The Visual Experience; An Introduction To Art (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, ca. 1961), by Bates Lowry (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoires: Collection in 8o (Académie Royale de Belgique, Classe des Beaux-Arts) (partial serial archives)
• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets (New York: Boni and Liveright, c1921), by Marsden Hartley (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Art (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., ca. 1914), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Art and Socialism, by William Morris (HTML at marxists.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Son, 1873), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Art Culture: A Hand-Book of Art Technicalities and Criticisms, Selected From The Works of John Ruskin, and Arranged and Supplemented by Rev. W.H. Platt, for the Use of Schools and Colleges; Together With a New Glossary of Art Terms, And an Alphabetical and Chronological List of Artists (New York: J. Wiley and Sons, 1877), by John Ruskin, ed. by W. H. Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Art Spirit (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1923), by Robert Henri, ed. by Margery Ryerson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Barbaren und Klassiker: Ein Buch von der Bildnerei Exotischer Völker (in German; title page appears to be missing; Munich: R. Piper and Co., 1922), by Wilhelm Hausenstein (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A Course of Lectures Delivered at the New York School of Applied Design for Women (New York: Irving Press, 1912), ed. by Mrs. Dunlap Hopkins, contrib. by Frank Edwin Elwell, Henry Reuterdahl, Louis R. Metcalfe, H. K. Kevorkian, and Albert Sterner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Creative Will: Studies in the Philosophy and the Syntax of Aesthetics (New York and London: J. Lane, 1916), by Willard Huntington Wright (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hopes and Fears for Art, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• Kunst ("Art" translated into German; Dresden: Sibyllenverlag, 1922), by Clive Bell, ed. by Paul Westheim (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• L'Art et le Geste (in French; Paris: F. Alcan, 1910), by Jean d' Udine (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lectures on Art, and Poems, by Washington Allston (page images at MOA)
• Prose Miscellany (Cincinnati: R. Clarke and Co., 1881), by Horace P. Biddle (HTML and page images at Indiana)
• Seven Discourses on Art, by Joshua Reynolds (Gutenberg text)
• Since Cézanne (ca. 1922), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Sketches of Art, Literature, and Character (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885), by Mrs. Jameson (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Two Paths, by John Ruskin (Gutenberg text)
• An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (Yonkers, NY: Alicat Book Shop Press, 1946), by Maya Deren (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• System and Dialectics of Art (New York: Delphic studios, 1937), by John Graham (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Aesthetic and Miscellaneous Works of Friedrich von Schlegel: Comprising Letters on Christian Art; An Essay on Gothic Architecture; Remarks on the Romance-Poetry of the Middle Ages and on Shakspere; On the Limits of the Beautiful; On the Language and Wisdom of the Indians (London: H. G. Bohn, 1860), by Friedrich von Schlegel, trans. by E. J. Millington
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
• "Civilidad y Arte": Discursos de Instalación de la "Academia de Bellas Artes" y de Presentación de sus Fundadores (in Spanish; Asunción, 1909), by Juan Silvano Godoi and Viriato Díaz-Pérez (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Elements of Art Criticism, by G. W. Samson (page images at MOA)
• The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (London: The New Age Press, 1908), by Bernard Shaw (PDF at modjourn.org)
• Pot-Boilers (London: Chatto and Windus, 1918), by Clive Bell (Gutenberg text)
• Signs of Change, by William Morris (Gutenberg text)
• The Decay of Lying, by Oscar Wilde (HTML in Ireland)
• Questioni Pratiche di Belle Arti: Restauri, Concorsi, Legislazione, Professione, Insegnamento (in Italian; Milano: U. Hoepli, 1893), by Camillo Boito (page images at HathiTrust)

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